Unnatural Frenchmen
Subtitle: The Politics of Priestly Celibacy and Marriage, 1720-1815
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813937120
Subjects: Catholic church, clergy; Catholic church, france; Celibacy
Description: This book examines the divisive issue of clerical celibacy in Enlightenment and revolutionary France, looking at how it shaped religious politics, the lived experience of French clerics, and gendered citizenship. Drawing on a wide base of printed and archival material, including thousands of letters that married priests wrote to the Pope, historian Claire Cage highlights individual as well as ideological struggles.