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Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
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Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
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Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
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From unpublished episcopal visitation records and internal diocesan documents (including notarial registers, bishops' letters, dispensations for illegitimate birth, and episcopal court records), Armstrong-Partida reconstructs the personal lives and careers of Catalan parish priests to better understand the professional identity and masculinity of churchmen who made up the proletariat of the largest institution across Europe. These untapped sources reveal the extent to which parish clergy were embedded in their communities, particularly their kinship ties to villagers and their often contentious interactions with male parishioners and clerical colleagues.
s highlights a clerical culture that embraced violence to resolve disputes and seek revenge, to intimidate other men, and to maintain their status and authority in the community.