The clergy in the medieval world : secular clerics, their families and careers in north-western Europe, c. 800-c. 1200 / Julia Barrow, University of Leeds.

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 inf...

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