Maroula Perisanidi

Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium (eBook, ePUB)

Property, Family, and Purity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351024600
• Artikelnr.: 56886796

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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