TY - BOOK AU - Cossar,Roisin TI - Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy T2 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History SN - 9780674971899 AV - BV4396 U1 - 253/.22094510902 PY - 2017///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Church renewal KW - Italy, Northern KW - Catholic Church KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Clergy KW - Family relationships KW - Households KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - HISTORY / Medieval KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674978683 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674978683 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674978683.jpg ER -