Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy

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Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy is written by Roisin Cossar and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674978668 (ISBN 10) and 9780674978669 (ISBN 13).

Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers’ desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priests’ lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.