Fontes Anglo-Saxonici

Comment:: While Augustine's De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo pauulorum was a key precedent for this medieval doctrine, Aelfric may well have encountered the idea through an intermediary: De peccatorum meritis does not appear in Paul the Deacon, and one manuscript from Anglo-Saxon England is extant.

Contributor:: Aaron Kleist

Created:: 2024-08-03

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Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-09-06