Penitentials sentence example
penitentials
- The penitentials (q.v.), or early collections of disciplinary canons, gave much attention to sacrilege.
- The murder or injury of the clergy is also sacrilege in both penitentials and capitularies.
- The Penitentials 5 are collections intended for the guidance of confessors in estimating the penances to be imposed for various sins, according to the discipline in force in the Anglo =ten - Saxon countries.
- Penitentials or codes defined (even invented) different degrees of guilt, and assessed the liability involved much as if a sin gave rise to an action to recover damages.
- The Greek penitentials date from about 600; the Latin are a little later; the most influential was that of Theodore of Tarsus, who was archbishop of Canterbury from 668 to 690.Advertisement