Master of Penance
ISBN: 9780813221694
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The Catholic University of America Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Penance; Penance (Canon law);

This book presents the first full-scale study of the Tractatus de penitentia (C.33 q.3) in Gratian's Decretum, which became the textbook for canon law and served as the basis of the church's developing jurisprudence, in theory and in practice

ATRIA A. LARSON is a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University.

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