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Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium - Property, Family, and Purity (Hardcover)
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Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium - Property, Family, and Purity (Hardcover)
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Why did the medieval West condemn clerical marriage as an
abomination while the Byzantine Church affirmed its sanctifying
nature? This book brings together ecclesiastical, legal, social,
and cultural history in order to examine how Byzantine and Western
medieval ecclesiastics made sense of their different rules of
clerical continence. Western ecclesiastics condemned clerical
marriage for three key reasons: married clerics could alienate
ecclesiastical property for the sake of their families; they could
secure careers in the Church for their sons, restricting
ecclesiastical positions and lands to specific families; and they
could pollute the sacred by officiating after having had sex with
their wives. A comparative study shows that these offending risk
factors were absent in twelfth-century Byzantium: clerics below the
episcopate did not have enough access to ecclesiastical resources
to put the Church at financial risk; clerical dynasties were
understood within a wider frame of valued friendship networks; and
sex within clerical marriage was never called impure in canon law,
as there was little drive to use pollution discourses to separate
clergy and laity. These facts are symptomatic of a much wider
difference between West and East, impinging on ideas about social
order, moral authority, and reform.
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