The Significance of the Frankish Penitentials

It has been argued that the handbooks of penance known as the ‘Frankish’ penitentials, though ‘an important and necessary stage in the development of medieval church and society’, were an ‘ephemeral and ultimately despised intrusion’ into the Frankish Church of the eighth and ninth centuries. The im...

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Main Author: Frantzen, Allen J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1979
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1979, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 409-421
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