Julia Barrow: 1 book
The Clergy in the Medieval World
Secular Clerics, their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, c.800–c.1200
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society. This first broad-ranging study in English of the secular clergy examines how ordination provided a framework for clerical life cycles and outlines the influence...
