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Michelle Armstrong-Partida - Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya - 9781501707735 - V9781501707735
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Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya

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Description for Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 15, 2 maps, 13 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Two hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval period continued to form unions with women that were marriage all but in name. In Defiant Priests, Michelle Armstrong-Partida uses evidence from extraordinary archives in four Catalan dioceses to show that maintaining a family with a domestic partner was not only a custom entrenched in Catalan clerical culture but also an essential component of priestly masculine identity.

From unpublished episcopal visitation records and internal diocesan documents (including notarial registers, bishops' letters, dispensations for illegitimate birth, and episcopal court records), Armstrong-Partida reconstructs the personal lives and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501707735
SKU
V9781501707735
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About Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Michelle Armstrong-Partida is Assistant Professor of History at Emory University.

Reviews for Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Defiant Priests is a detailed and engaging study of the ecclesiastical responsibilities, household organization, and survival strategies of clerics in fourteenth-century Catalunya, and it makes an important contribution to this growing body of literature [exploring clerical responses to the rigid demands of Christian church reform measures].... The volume of [visitation] records used in the study is striking, and the wealth ... Read more

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