Contents
Figures and Table
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Tractatus de penitentia of Gratian's Decretum
1. Distinctio 1: Contrition or Confession—What Remits Sins?
2. Distinctio 2: Regaining Love Like David or Losing Love Like Satan
3. Distinctio 3: Sin and the Nature of True Penance
4. Distinctio 4: When Forgiven Sins Come Back to Haunt You
5. Distinctiones 5–7: True Penance, Proper Confessor-Priests, and Secure Death
6. Penance in Practice: Extra–De penitentia Texts on Penance in the Decretum
7. From Discipulus Anselmi to Magister clericorum
Part II. The Reception of Gratian’s Tractatus de penitentia
8. From One Master to Another: Peter Lombard’s Usage of Gratian's De penitentia
9. De penitentia in the Classroom (1): The Early Reception, 1140–1170
10. De penitentia in the Classroom (2): Paris and Bologna at the End of the Twelfth Century
11. Moving beyond the Classroom: De penitentia in England and Southern France, 1160–1190
12. De penitentia outside the Classroom: The Papal Curia, 1159–1215
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Progressive Formation of De penitentia D.7 cc.2–4
Appendix B: Overlapping Texts between Peter Lombard, Sent. 4.14–22 and the Decretum
Appendix C: Adaptatio ab Omnibono Tractatus de penitentia Gratiani
Appendix D: De penitentia in Celestine III’s Decretal Cum non ab homine
Bibliography
Index of Decretum Gratiani Manuscripts
Index of Canon Law Citations
General Index