Married Priests & the Reforming Papacy: The 11th Century Debates

by Anne Llewellyn Barstow

This volume explores the patristic and early-medieval documents that later became references in the debates over clerical celibacy, the Gregorian attack on clerical marriage, its defenses, the defense of the Norman Anonymous, and the consequences of the reformers' success in making celibacy a necessary condition of clerical status.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889469873
• ISBN13: 9780889469877
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.