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Clerics' Wives and Women in the Medieval Latin West, 800-1200

Clerics' Wives and Women in the Medieval Latin West, 800-1200

Griffiths, Fiona J.
Kurdziel, Émilie

Hardcover

General European History

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 31, 2027

ISBN10: 1009751972
ISBN13: 9781009751971
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 31 2027
Pages: 359
Language: English
This book focuses on the lives and circumstances of clerics' wives and female partners in western Europe in the four centuries before 1200 - that is, before 'celibacy' (singleness and sexual continence) became an expectation for churchmen in major orders. In the first and only book to center on clerics' wives and women across Europe, archival evidence reveals what has until now been a virtually unknown category of medieval woman: women married to, or living with, bishops, priests, or other clerics. Throughout, case studies establish a concrete historical record of individual clerical female partners, dramatically increasing the number of known clerics' wives and women, and highlighting the types of sources and contexts that are most likely to preserve evidence for their presence and activities. In so doing, the book challenges not only the presumed invisibility of these women in medieval sources, but also the idea that their presence was deemed scandalous or out of place within the surrounding community.

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