Penance Bibliography

 

Studies

Bernasconi, Robert. "The Infinite Task of Confession: A Contribution to the History of Ethics". Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae 6. Tokyo: 1988. 75-92.

Frantzen, Allen J. The Literature of Penance in Anglo-Saxon England. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983.

--. "The Tradition of Penitentials in Anglo-Saxon England". Anglo-Saxon England Vol. 11. (1983) 23-56.

Goody, Jack. The Interface between the Written and the Oral .Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Gurevich, Aron. Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Perception and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988. 78-103.

LeGoff, Jacques. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 107-121.

McNeill, John T. and Helena M. Gamer. Medieval Handbooks of Penance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1938; repr. ed., 1965.

Oakley, Thomas P. English Penitential Discipline and Anglo-Saxon Law in their Joint Influence. Columbia University Studies in the Social Sciences 242. New York: Columbia University Press, 1923.

----: "The Cooperation of Medieval Penance and Secular Law". Speculum 7 . (1932) 515-24.

Payer, Pierre J. Sex and the Penitentials: The Development of a Sexual Code 500-1150. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Vogel, Cyrille. "Les `Libri Paenitentiales'". Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental Vol. 27. Turnhout: Brepols, 1978. Cor. and rev. by Allen J. Frantzen. Mise Jour du Fascicule No. 27. Turnhout: Brepols, 1985.

Editions of Penitentials

Broomfield, F., ed. "Thomae de Chobham Summa Confessorum." Analecta Mediaevalia Namurcensia 25. Louvain, 1968.

Firth, Francis J. J. Ed. Robert of Flamborough.

Fowler, R., Ed. "A Late OE Handbook for the Use of a Confessor". Anglia Vol. 83. (1965) 1-34.

Frantzen, Allen J."Scriftboc: An Anglo-Saxon Penitential". Forthcoming.

Raith, J. "Das altenglische Version des Halitgar'schen Bussbuches (sog.) Poenitentiale Pseudo-Ecgberti." BAP Vol 13. Hamburg, 1933. (Repr. ed. new introduction.) Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesselschaft, 1964.

Spindler, R., ed. "Das altenglische Bussbuch (sog. Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti)". Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1934.

Thorpe, Benjamin. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England. (2 Vols). London, 1840. (also published in one volume in 1840) 2:128-168.

 

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