Note 1439 — X HISTORICAL RACES
Reading edition
The fact that penance was imposed upon the mother who killed her child by the Council of Mentz in 852 suggests that the practice was not uncommon at that time (Westermarck, Moral Ideas, vol. i, p. 411).
Reading edition
The fact that penance was imposed upon the mother who killed her child by the Council of Mentz in 852 suggests that the practice was not uncommon at that time (Westermarck, Moral Ideas, vol. i, p. 411).