Penance and the law: the penitential canons of the Collection in Nine Books
A.H. Gaastra
This article examines the south Italian tenth-century Collection in Nine Books, one of first compilations canon law to incorporate a penitential handbook. It places this work context other collections, investigating its sources, and way which compiler chose include canons. therefore contributes current debate about purpose function penitentials as genre period, arguing that they were probably intended support efforts bishops educate priests administration penance.
Early Medieval Europe