Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Penance in the ancient

Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Penance in the ancient church--The penitentials--The condition of the texts--Early Irish penitential documents--Early Welsh penitential documents--Penitentials of the Anglo-Saxon church--Penitentials by Irish authors which were apparently compiled on the continent--Anonymous and pseudonymous Frankish and Visigothic penitentials of the eighth and ninth centuries--Penitentials written or authorized by Frankish ecclesiastics--Selections from later penitential documents--Penitential elements in medieval public law--Synodical decisions and ecclesiastical opinions relating to the penitentials--An eighth-century list of superstitions--Selections from the customs of Tallaght--Irish canons from a Worcester collection--On documents omitted--The manuscripts of the penitentials.