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

Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium: Property, Family, and Purity Perisanidi Maroula Wydawca: Taylor & Francis Ltd Data wydania: 2020 ISBN: 9780367588939 Liczba stron: 194 Format: 234 x 156 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: 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.