Source: Allen J. Frantzen, Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – A Cultural Database (This is an extract from the Introduction.)
One page of an Internet site no longer available (5 December 2023): Allen J. Frantzen, Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – A Cultural Database. Archived at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150117103226/http://www.anglo-saxon.net/
Introduction to the website, with images of the manuscripts:
One page of an Internet site no longer available (5 December 2023): Allen J. Frantzen, Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – A Cultural Database. Archived at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150203121835/http://anglo-saxon.net/penance/
About the manuscripts in the database:
Taken from one page of an Internet site no longer available (5 December 2023): Allen J. Frantzen, Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – A Cultural Database. Archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20150216035740/http://anglo-saxon.net:80/penance/index.php
[These are the manuscripts cited in this database:]
Introduction
Not familiar with the Anglo-Saxon penitentials or unsure where to start? Begin here for a general overview of the texts and how this databases will help you use them.
User Guide
Go here for some helpful tips on using the database, including features that help you compare texts and manuscripts and explore their cultural content.
About Allen
Allen J. Frantzen, professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago, has written eight books, most recently Food, Eating, and Identity in Early Medieval Britain (2014), and edited or co-edited eleven others, including Teaching Beowulf in the Twenty-first Century (2014).