Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200

Rob Meens is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Utrecht. He has published extensively in the field of medieval religious culture with a particular emphasis on penance and his publications include The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (co-edited with Y. Hen, 2004) and Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages (with R. Corradini, 2006). He is general editor of the series 'Paenitentialia Franciae, Italiae et Hispaniae Saeculi VIII-XI' of Corpus Christianorum.

• 1. Introduction; 2. The Late Antique legacy; 3. A new beginning? Penitential practice in the insular world; 4. Insular texts on the move: penance in Francia and England; 5. Penance and the Carolingian reforms; 6. New penitential territories: the tenth and eleventh centuries; 7. The twelfth century; Conclusion; Appendix 1. The manuscripts of Theodore's penitential; Appendix 2. The manuscripts of the Excarpsus Cummeani; Appendix 3. The manuscripts of the Bede and Egbert penitentials; Appendix 4. The manuscripts of Halitgar's penitential.

'In this impressive account Rob Meens leads us carefully through the sources, demonstrating the great variety which existed in early medieval penance from its very beginnings.' Sarah Hamilton, University of Exeter