Ecclesiastical penance in the Church of Constantinople

<p>The present study provides for the first time a systematic and comprehensive examination of the evidence for ecclesiastical penance found in the vast corpus of pre-Metaphrastic Byzantine hagiography.The value of the thesis lies primarily in the body of evidence which it makes available and...

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Main Author: Barringer, R
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 1979
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