Defiant Priests : Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya /
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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2017.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


