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Medieval Purity and Piety: Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform (Garland Medieval Casebooks) [Hardcover]

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0815324308 978-0815324300 April 1, 1998
These new essays examine one of the major developments of the central Middle Ages: the emergence of a celibate clergy. Drawing on the work of historians and scholars of literature and religious studies, this essay collection traces the developing concern in the church militant with matters of purity and religious reform.

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  • Hardcover: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge (April 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0815324308
  • ISBN-13: 978-0815324300
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,022,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The first extensive debates about the problem of clerical celibacy in the Latin Christian church in the later Middle Ages took place in the exchange between Guillaume Saignet and Jean Gerson early in the fifteenth century, and the topic worked its way briefly onto the agenda of the Council of Constance. Read the first page
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identifying clerics, des todes gehugde, privati milanesi, clerical fornication, missorum generale, unchaste clergy, clerical chastity, clerical continence, clerical unchastity, clerical purity, terrestrial church, offending clergy, child oblation, clerical celibacy, clerical marriage, marital imagery, reforming papacy, sacerdotal order, secular clerics, cultic purity, popular heresy, investiture conflict, monastic reform movement, papal vicars, papal legislation
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New York, Middle Ages, Peace of God, Old Testament, Gregory the Great, Georges Duby, Peter Damian, Abbo of Fleury, Roman Catholic, Die Publizistik, Gerd Tellenbach, Odo of Cluny, Peter Brown, Pope Nicholas, Reggio Emilia, Ademar of Chabannes, Die Briefe des Petrus Damiani, Investiture Contest, Richard Landes, Archivio Capitolare, Heinrich von Melk, John of Salerno, Data Kin Relations, Gregory of Tours, Hrabanus Maurus
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