Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Celtic Penitentials and Their Influence on Continental Christianity: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Church History in the Graduate Divinity School
No phase of mediaeval Christianity was a more vital, part of common life than the Penitential System. Through it priest and people had their most Significant relationships. It was the foremost agency in the cure of souls, and at the period of fullest institutional development it assumed a very important place in the ecclesiastical frame-work.
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