Medieval Purity and Piety
Subtitle: Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780815324300
Subjects: Christian moral & pastoral theology; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Religion; Clergy; Applied Christian Sexual Ethics; History - General History; Middle Ages, 600-1500; Medieval; History; Christian Ministry - Pastoral Resources; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Celibacy; Christianity - History - General; Catholic Church; Church history
First sentence: The first extensive debates about the problem of clerical celibacy in the Latin Christian church in the later Middle Ages took place in the exchange between Guillaume Saignet and Jean Gerson early in the fifteenth century, and the topic worked its way briefly onto the agenda of the Council of Constance.