[113] Ibid., 66, 67.
[114] Cf. Geffcken, Ehescheidung, 57-62; Freisen, Geschichte des can. Eherechts, 792 ff.
[115] The Poenitentiale Theodori is contained in Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, III, 173-213; also that of Ecgberht, ibid., III, 413-31. Versions of these may be found in Thorpe, Ancient Laws, II, 1 ff., 129 ff.; also with many others in Wasserschleben, Bussordnungen; and in Schmitz, Bussbücher, 510 ff., 565 ff., who, contrary to the generally accepted view, traces (3 ff.) all the penitentials to Roman models. In general, see Geffcken, op. cit., 61-67; Freisen, op. cit., 785-92; Esmein, op. cit., II, 60-64; Perrone, De mat. christ., III, 374 ff.; Hinschius, "Das Ehescheidungsrecht nach den angelsächsischen und fränkischen Bussordnungen," Zeitsch. für deut. Recht, XX, 66 ff.; Rosenthal, Rechtsfolgen des Ehebruchs, 2 ff.; and especially Bennecke, Ehebruch, 34 ff. Luckock, Hist. of Marriage, 165-67, tries, of course, to take away the authenticity of Theodore's Penitential.
[116] Poenitentiale Theod., II, xii, 5, 6: Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, III, 199: cf. Thorpe, Anc. Laws, II, 17. For similar provisions, see Poenitentiale XXXV Capitulorum, c. 9, § 1: Wasserschleben, Bussordnungen, 511; and the Excerptiones Ecgberti, c. 121: Thorpe, op. cit., II, 114, 115.
[117] "Si mulier discesserit a viro suo despiciens eum, nolens revertere et reconciliari vero, post v. annos cum consensu Episcopi aliam accipere licebit uxorem."—Poenit. Theod., II, xii, 19: Haddan and Stubbs, op. cit., III, 200. The Poenit. Merseburgense, c. 104: Wasserschleben, op. cit., 402, seems to allow the man in such case to marry after one year: "Si mulier a viro discesserit et iterum reversa fuerit, suscipiat eam sine dote et ipsa ann. I poeniteat in p. e. a., similiter et ille, si aliam duxerit."—Hinschius, Das Ehescheidungsrecht, 80; but Geffcken thinks the second wife must be sent away when the first wife returns, the man doing penance: Ehescheidung, 63, 64. Cf. similar provisions in Poenit. Cummeani, c. 3, § 31, Poenit. XXXV Cap., c. 9, § 2: Wasserschleben, op. cit., 474, 511; and Poenit. Theod., I, xiv, 13: Haddan and Stubbs, op. cit., III, 188.
[118] Poenit. Theod., II, xii, 8: Haddan and Stubbs, op. cit., III, 199.
[119] In that case, "licet aliam accipere; melius est sic facere quam fornicationes": Poenit. Theod., II, xii, 23: Haddan and Stubbs, op. cit., III, 200, 201; cf. Thorpe, op. cit., II, 19.
[120] Poenit. Theod., II, xii, 17, 18: Haddan and Stubbs, op. cit., III, 200.
[121] Poenit. Theod., II, xii, 32, xiii, 5: Haddan and Stubbs, op. cit., III, 201, 202; cf. Esmein, Le mariage en droit canonique, II, 64.
[122] Poenit. Theod., II, xiii, 4: Haddan and Stubbs, op. cit., III, 202.