Priestly Wives: The Role and Acceptance of Clerics' Concubines in the Parishes of Late Medieval Catalunya

Armstrong-Partida, Michelle

doi:10.1017/s0038713413000535

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“…This expanded definition of power is implicit in the recent scholarship on priests' concubines, some of whom apparently held places of influence in the parish community that they reinforced in a performative fashion when they hosted dinners at the parish priest's home, rang the church bells, or prepared the sacramental host and oil for the church. 22 A broad approach to power could also take in the small but growing field of inquiry into the lives of Jewish and Muslim women in Christian context. As Lois Huneycutt suggested earlier in this roundtable, our study of women and power has tended to generalize from the example of Latin Christian women, and should be expanded.…”

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2016

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A Difficult Legacy. Initial Comments on the Inheritance Rights of Filii Clericorum in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

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Living in Suspicion: Priests and Female Servants in Late Medieval England

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2016

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This article examines ordinary priests in late medieval England who, despite clear guidelines to the contrary, employed and lived with female servants. Ecclesiastical legislation frequently and firmly warned priests against living with women, including servants, because of the potential for sexual temptation, scandal, or both. Historians have long assumed that most clerical households were homosocial, but looking closely at the living arrangements of ordinary parish priests reveals a different story. Evidence from the dioceses of Hereford and Lincoln suggests that elite clerical expectations were often ill-suited to the social and economic realities of parish life, and priests’ living arrangements reflect this incompatibility. Distrust of female clerical servants was heightened during periods of church reform, when these women bore the brunt of both reforming rhetoric and action.

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Priestly Wives: The Role and Acceptance of Clerics' Concubines in the Parishes of Late Medieval Catalunya

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

What Do We Mean by "Women and Power"?

What Do We Mean by "Women and Power"?

A Difficult Legacy. Initial Comments on the Inheritance Rights of Filii Clericorum in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Living in Suspicion: Priests and Female Servants in Late Medieval England

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