Canon law and the practice of penance: Burchard of Worms's penitential
Ludger Körntgen
This article investigates the characteristics and function of Book 19 Burchard's Decretum. It demonstrates how penitential questionnaire, usually considered most original part this text, was result systematic expansion upon his main source, Regino Prum. argues that not a conventional penitential, to be used support administration penance by priests, but rather it meant both an exemplary summary preceding eighteen books. Burchard thus sought ensure there no contradiction between collection canon law penitential.
Early Medieval Europe