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Defiant priests : domestic unions, violence, and clerical masculinity in fourteenth-century Catalunya / Michelle Armstrong-Partida

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Armstrong-Partida, Michelle, 1974-
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 346 pages)
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Contents
Introduction : understanding priest masculinity -- Marriage defines the priest -- Proof of manhood : priests as husbands and fathers -- Laymen in priestly robes -- "Fighting" men : violence and priestly masculinity -- Becoming a priest : clerical role models and clerics-in-training -- Hierarchy, competition, and conflict : the parish as a battleground.
Summary
In Defiant Priests, Michelle Armstrong-Partida uses evidence from extraordinary archives in four Catalan dioceses to show that maintaining a family with a domestic partner was not only a custom entrenched in Catalan clerical culture but also an essential component of priestly masculine identity.
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ISBN
9781501707827 (electronic book)
1501707825 (electronic book)
1501707736
9781501707735
9781501707810 (epub/mobi)
1501707817 (epub/mobi)
9781501707735 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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