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The Clergy in the Medieval World - Secular Clerics, their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, c.800-c.1200 (Hardcover)
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The Clergy in the Medieval World - Secular Clerics, their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, c.800-c.1200 (Hardcover)
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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 exerted on secular
clergy by monastic ideals before tracing typical career paths for
clerics. Concentrating on northern France, England and Germany in
the period c.800-c.1200, Julia Barrow explores how entry into the
clergy usually occurred in childhood, with parents making decisions
for their sons, although other relatives, chiefly clerical uncles,
were also influential. By comparing two main types of family
structure, Barrow supplies an explanation of why Gregorian
reformers faced little serious opposition in demanding an end to
clerical marriage in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Changes in
educational provision c.1100 also help to explain growing social
and geographical mobility among clerics.
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