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Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy / Roisin Cossar.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance HistoryPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674971899
  • 9780674978683
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 253/.22094510902
LOC classification:
  • BV4396
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Notaries, Registers, and Archives -- 2. Records as Artifacts and Historical Events -- 3. Priests as Patriarchs: The Clergy and Their Households -- 4. "She Is Not My Wife but a Servant": Clerics' Companions -- 5. Material Culture and Work in the Clerical Domus -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers' desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priests' lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674978683

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Notaries, Registers, and Archives -- 2. Records as Artifacts and Historical Events -- 3. Priests as Patriarchs: The Clergy and Their Households -- 4. "She Is Not My Wife but a Servant": Clerics' Companions -- 5. Material Culture and Work in the Clerical Domus -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers' desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priests' lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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