The corrupter of boys : sodomy, scandal, and the medieval clergy /

"In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of augmented claims to holiness. Because clerical celibacy was key to this distinction, religious authorities of all stripes-patristic authors, popes, theologians, canonists, monastic founders, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Elliott, Dyan, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
To 1500
Clergy > Sexual behavior > History > To 1500.
Sexual misconduct by clergy > History > To 1500.
Child sexual abuse by clergy > History > To 1500.
Celibacy > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Celibacy > Christianity
Child sexual abuse by clergy
Church history > Middle Ages
Church history > Primitive and early church
Clergy > Sexual behavior
Sexual misconduct by clergy
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Scandal of Clerical Sin
  • The Trouble with Boys
  • The Problem with Women
  • Sodomy on the Cusp of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  • Confession, Scandal, and the "Sin Not Fit to be Named"
  • Prologue
  • The Monastery
  • The Choir
  • The Schools
  • The Episcopal Curia
  • Conclusion.

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