Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium - Property, Family, and Purity

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Maroula Perisanidi
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138495135
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49513-5
• Seiten: 194
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; England, HISTORY / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Medieval History, Sociology: family & relationships, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Christian institutions & organizations, Church history, Religious institutions and organizations, Byzantine Empire, 12th century, c 1100 to c 1199, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships