The Manly Priest: Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 166-13

by Jennifer D. Thibodeaux

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. As the Anglo-Norman Church began to impose clerical celibacy on the priesthood, reform needed to be carefully negotiated, as it relied on the acceptance of a new definition of masculinity for religious men, one not dependent on conventional male roles in society. The Manly Priest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247523
• ISBN13: 9780812247527
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"