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Clerical marriage and the English Reformation : precedent, policy, and practice / Helen L. Parish.
LIBRA BR377 .H37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parish, Helen L.
- Series:
- St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reformation--England.
- Reformation.
- Celibacy.
- History.
- Marriage.
- England.
- England--Church history--16th century.
- Church history.
- Clergy--Family relationships.
- Clergy.
- Marriage--History--16th century.
- Celibacy--History--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2000]
- Contents:
- 1 'This act is in this country a monster': Clerical Marriage in England during the Reformation 27
- 2 Celibate Priesthood or Married Ministry? The Testimony of the Bible 39
- 3 'Good and Holy Men': Clerical Marriage and the Example of the Early Church 66
- 4 'Disunity and Innovation': The Example of the Mediaeval Church 96
- 5 Clerical Celibacy as a Mark of the Antichrist in English Reformation Polemic 115
- 6 A Compulsion From Which They Should Be Set Free: Vows of Celibacy and the English Reformation 138
- 7 'Massinge and that cannot agre together': Clerical Marriage and the Eucharist in English Reformation Polemic 161
- 8 'That they might better attend to the ministration of the gospel': Clerical Marriage in England, 1549-70 180
- Appendix Diocesan Maps 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-270) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0754600386
- OCLC:
- 43390605
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