Confession, Penance, and Extreme Unction
Rob Meens
The close links between confession, penance, and extreme unction may warrant discussing these topics together in a single chapter of book on medieval canon law. For most the Middle Ages, penance law were closely related at times even virtually indistinguishable, as first section this will explain. This was so though could take many different forms shapes, ranging from very informal acts more or less fueled by feelings contrition, one hand, to disciplinary penances, which formally imposed priests, bishops, ecclesiastical secular courts, other, second argue. Confession, moreover, served early an intrinsic part rituals that prepared Christian for his her last voyage: rites unction. final deal with development into defined liturgical ritual it emerged Carolingian age lasted through centuries.
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