1st Edition
Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium Property, Family, and Purity
By Maroula Perisanidi
Copyright 2019
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why did the medieval West condemn clerical marriage as an abomination while the Byzantine Church affirmed its sanctifying nature? This book brings together ecclesiastical, legal, social, and cultural history in order to examine how Byzantine and Western medieval ecclesiastics made sense of their different rules of clerical continence. Western ecclesiastics condemned clerical marriage for three... Read more
Contents;Acknowledgements ;List of abbreviations;1: Introduction ;2: Overviews;3: Episcopal Finances ;4: Finances of Clergy Below the Episcopate;5: Clerical Dynasties ;6: Bodily Secretions and the Sacred;7: Was Clerical Marriage Polluting?;8: Conclusion;Bibliography;Index
Biography
Maroula Perisanidi is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, researching reform and clerical authority in the Eleventh Century. She has published articles on canon law and on the history of sexuality in several major journals.
