Author: Jennifer D. Thibodeaux

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0812247523

The Manly Priest examines the clerical celibacy movement in medieval England and Normandy, which produced a new model of religious masculinity for the priesthood and resulted in social tension and conflict as traditional norms of masculine behavior were radically altered for this group of men.