Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Gendered Bodies and Gendered Identities -- Chapter 1. The Manly Celibate -- Chapter 2. Legal Discourse and the Reality of Clerical Marriage -- Chapter 3. The Marginality of Clerical Sons -- Chapter 4. "The Natural Right of a Man": The Clerical Defense of Traditional Masculinity -- Chapter 5. "They ought to be a model and example": The Expansion of Religious Manliness -- Chapter 6. Policing Priestly Bodies: The Conflict of Masculinities Among the Norman Parish Clergy -- Conclusion The Manly Priest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
The Manly Priest examines the clerical celibacy movement in medieval England and Normandy, which produced a new model of religious masculinity for the priesthood and resulted in social tension and conflict as traditional norms of masculine behavior were radically altered for this group of men
