Abstract:This article explores the role played by ideas about age and appropriate behavior for different stages of life in shaping the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reformers' vision for an ordered Christian society—notable at a time when the role of the Church and especially the papacy as both the definer and enforcer of utilitas was increasingly emphasized. By focusing on how some influential reformers and writers characterized youth, adulthood, and that shadowy stage between them, the iuventus, this article examin… Show more
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