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Questions:
1. Where did the system of penances originate?
2. Give some examples of the penances given for various sins or crimes.
3. What is an example of compensation for victims given by the offenders?
4. What are some ways the folklaw and the penitential law of the church differed?
5. Was there separation of secular and spiritual law?
6. Even though vengeance was allowed during the primitive processes in the eleventh and twelfth century legal world, what was the ultimate goal?
7. What were legal principles and penances based on in these early periods of European societies?
8. Was law at this time more of a mediating process or a rulemaking process?
9. How did combined secular and spiritual authorities help to achieve the complex justice system used by the Western world today?
10. What culture influenced penances to go from public to private, resulting in the creation of confessions?