The Ermenfrid Penitential: A Serial

Could we inoculate soldiers from moral injury --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

If you found the book of horrors would you open it? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

I encourage you to listen on the Anchor app so you can hear the song at the end. If not, here's the link: https://youtu.be/pjYvfvpiJSs --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

The violation of churches was treated likewise, and those who stole from churches were to make such restitution as they could. Trafficking in the spoils of churches was prohibited. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Those who committed adulteries, rapes and fornications were to do penance as if they had sinned in their own country. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Those who killed men must do the full penance for common homicide wilfully committed, but with the exception that, if the man who was killed or wounded was in arms against the king, the penance was to be the reduced one of those who had actually killed or wounded men in the battle of Hastings. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

If, however, they were out for plunder and not for food, they were to do three years' penance for each man. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

“Those who killed men in the face of resistance while they were foraging for food were to do a year's penance for each man; that is, they were to be treated as through they had killed men in the battle of Hastings.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Those who fought as in a public war were assigned a penance of three years by the bishops, out of mercy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Those who were prompted merely by personal gain owed the full penance which was appropriate for common homicide. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Clerks and monks who had fought or carried arms were to be dealt with according to the canons of the Church or their rule, as though they had sinned in their own land (s). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Archers who had killed or wounded others, but who, by the nature of their weapons, could not know the number, were to do penance for three Lents. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Anyone who had not actually struck a man, but, nonetheless, had willed to do so, was to do three days' penance. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Anyone who did not know how many men he had killed or wounded was, at the discretion of his bishop, to do penance for one day a week during the rest of his life, or, if he could, he might redeem his sin by a perpetual alms. “Disposable Heroes” https://youtu.be/lCsH1g5ZESk --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Anyone who had wounded a man, but did not know whether or not he had killed him, was to do forty days' penance for each man whom he could remember. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Anyone who knew that he had killed a man was to do one year's penance for each man whom he had killed --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support

Opening song, "Lion's Den" by Stephanie Marterre --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ErmenfridPenitential/support