Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy

by Roisin Cossar

Roisin Cossar brings a new perspective to the history of the Christian church in fourteenth century Italy by examining how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the arrival of the Black Death.

Priests at the end of the Middle Ages resembled their lay contemporaries as they entered into domestic relationships with women, fathered children, and took responsibility for managing households, or familiae...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674971892
• ISBN13: 9780674971899
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"