Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy / Roisin Cossar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cossar, Roisin, author.

Series:

I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clergy--Family relationships--Italy, Northern--History--To 1500.

Clergy.

Households--Italy, Northern--History--To 1500.

Households.

Households--Italy, Northern--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--To 1500.

Church renewal--Italy, Northern--Catholic Church--History--To 1500.

Church renewal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Making Records

1. Notaries, Registers, and Archives

2. Records as Artifacts and Historical Events

Part II: The Clerical Familia

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780674978669

0674978668

9780674978683

0674978684

OCLC:

979560254