Clerical continence in twelfth-century england and byzantium: property, family, and purity
Auteur :
Perisanidi, Maroula
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781138495135
Date de publication :
26 juil. 2018
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
430 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.