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The Manly Priest
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Pages: 240
Authors: Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-08 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The Manly Priest examines the clerical celibacy movement in medieval England and Normandy, which produced a new model of religious masculinity for the priesthoo
The Manly Priest
Language: en
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Authors: Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-02 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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During the High Middle Ages, members of the Anglo-Norman clergy not only routinely took wives but also often prepared their own sons for ecclesiastical careers.
The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216
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Pages: 445
Authors: Hugh M. Thomas
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-14 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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The secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - were among the most influential and powerful groups in European society during the c
Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy
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Authors: Roisin Cossar
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Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers’ desire for clerics
Priests and Their Books in Late Medieval Eichstätt
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This book analyzes the acquisition and use of texts by the parish clergy in the diocese of Eichstätt between 1400 and 1520 to refute the amusing, but misleadin