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    Saint David of Wales

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    SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:5087.6945(1) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

    Bishops, priests and penance in late Saxon England

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    This article examines the textual and manuscript evidence for the practice of penance in late Saxon England. It also examines the significance for pastoral care of the linguistic evidence for specialized vernacular terms for penance: 'scrift' for 'confessor', 'dædbote' and compounds of 'hreow' for 'penance' and 'remorse'. The linguistic and textual evidence suggests that penance was a regular part of lay piety. The manuscript evidence, on the other hand, supports recent contentions that penitentials were used by bishops and should be linked to canon law. However, the manuscript evidence cannot be properly understood unless the scant survival rate of humble priestly handbooks is taken into account. Moreover, bishops in this period were deeply involved in furthering pastoral care and their interests and concerns should not be divorced from a pastoral and local context. In conclusion, the article will argue that penitential practices were firmly rooted in the Anglo-Saxon church's ministry for the laity

    “Celtic” or “Catholic”? Writing the history of Scottish Christianity, AD 664–1093

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    Literacy --Aurality --Orality A Survey of Recent Research into the Orality/Literacy Complex of the Latin Middle Ages (600-1500)

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