Chapter Three. Authority And Piety
Abigail Firey
This chapter surveys the chronology of use penance and confession as elements religious jurisprudence examines larger context popular piety?insofar it can be perceived?in order to determine what sort precedents for penitential orientation might have been present before programme education developed during Charlemagne?s reign. Such enquiries require attention not only clerical instruction but also appropriation elaboration received doctrine, again, either imperial intervention or in regions governed by bishops seemingly less well connected court. The two episcopal legal actions that were conceived protecting Christians from dangers unorthodox ideas pose their salvation. patterns juridical pastoral change Carolingian era masked a dominant historiographical account development medieval West.Keywords: era; reign; court;
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