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1 online resource : illustrations (colour) |
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""Cover""; ""The Secular Clergy in England, 1066�1216""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""List of Plates""; ""PART I: MODELS OF CLERICAL BEHAVIOR""; ""1: Introduction""; ""2: The Model Priest and his Antithesis""; ""1. THE EXALTED STATUS OF PRIESTS AND CLERICS""; ""2. THE CRITIQUE OF THE CLERGY""; ""3: The Aristocratic Cleric""; ""1. THE ARISTOCRATIC STATUS OF ELITE CLERICS""; ""2. CLERICS AND ARISTOCRATIC CULTURE""; ""3. SOCIAL, MORAL, AND RELIGIOUS TENSIONS""; ""PART II: THE CLERGY AND THE WORLD""; ""4: The Wealth of the Secular Clergy"" |
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1. ECCLESIASTICAL INCOMES2. SECULAR SOURCES OF CLERICAL INCOME -- 3. CLERICS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- 4. RELIGIOUS ANXIETY ABOUT CLERICAL WEALTH -- 5: Patronage and Advancement -- 1. THE COMPETITION FOR BENEFICES -- 2. ACQUIRING BENEFICES: SIMONY, INHERITANCE, AND NEPOTISM -- 3. ACQUIRING BENEFICES: LORDSHIP, SERVICE, AND FRIENDSHIP -- 4. ACQUIRING BENEFICES: MORALS AND EDUCATION -- 5. PATRONAGE, TENSION, AND ANXIETY -- 6: Courtiers, Bureaucrats, and Hell -- 1. SERVICE TO ECCLESIASTICAL MAGNATES, SECULAR LORDS, AND THE KING |
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""2. LAY AND CLERICAL ADMINISTRATORS""""3. LITERACY, NUMERACY, EDUCATION, AND BUREAUCRACY""; ""4. THE RELIGIOUS CRITIQUE OF COURTS AND CLERICAL COURTIERS""; ""7: Clerical Marriage and Clerical Celibacy""; ""1. THE CAMPAIGN FOR CLERICAL CELIBACY""; ""2. RESISTANCE TO THE CAMPAIGN FOR CLERICAL CELIBACY""; ""3. EXHORTATION AND THE IMPACT ON PRIESTS� PARTNERS AND CHILDREN""; ""4. HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS THE DRIVE FOR CLERICAL CELIBACY?""; ""5. SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS AND THE SECULAR CLERGY""; ""8: Kinship, Household, Hospitality, and Friendship""; ""1. KINSHIP""; ""2. HOUSEHOLD AND HOSPITALITY"" |
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3. FRIENDSHIP9: Violence, Clerical Status, and the Issue of Criminous Clerks -- 1. CLERICS, VIOLENCE, AND TABOOS -- 2. CLERICAL VIOLENCE AND THE BECKET DISPUTE -- 3. CAUSES AND MOTIVES OF CLERICAL VIOLENCE -- PART III: THE CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL IMPACT OF THE CLERGY -- 10: English Secular Clerics and the Growth of European Intellectual Life in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance -- 1. ENGLISH CLERICS AND CONTINENTAL CENTERS OF LEARNING -- 2. ENGLAND AND THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE -- 3. THE PROLIFERATION OF INTELLECTUALS AMONG THE SECULAR CLERGY |
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""11: Secular Clerics as Collectors and Donors of Books""""1. NUMBERS OF BOOKS OWNED BY SECULAR CLERICS""; ""2. TYPES OF BOOKS OWNED BY SECULAR CLERICS""; ""3. THE IMPACT OF BOOK OWNERSHIP BY SECULAR CLERICS""; ""12: Secular Clerics as Authors and Intellectuals""; ""1. THE VARIETIES OF INTELLECTUAL WORK BY SECULAR CLERICS""; ""2. SECULAR CLERICS AND “PRACTICAL� KNOWLEDGE""; ""3. CONTROVERSIES OVER LEARNING""; ""13: Secular Clerics as Cultural Patrons and Performers""; ""1. SECULAR CLERICS AND THE “PERFORMING ARTS�""; ""2. SECULAR CLERICS AS PATRONS OF ART"" |
| Summary |
Hugh Thomas explores the role of the secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - in medieval England, and their influence, not only on religion, but on the rise of arts and education of the time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 24, 2014) |
| Subject |
Clergy -- England -- History -- To 1500
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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Clergy
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Church history -- 1066-1485.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043265
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191772269 |
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0191772267 |
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9780191007019 |
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0191007013 |
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9781322008622 |
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1322008620 |
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