Medieval Purity and Piety

Medieval Purity and Piety

Author: Michael Frassetto

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780815324300

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These new essays examine one of the major developments of the central Middle Ages: the emergence of a celibate clergy. Drawing on the work of historians and scholars of literature and religious studies, this essay collection traces the developing concern in the church militant with matters of purity and religious reform.