Dyan Elliott, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 378 p
In: Mediaevistik, Jg. 34 (2021), S. 297-300
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A perpetual problem in church history is ecclesiastics setting the bar too high for human success: compulsory celibacy, sought because Church leaders believed it preserved priests’ purity and status, inevitably led to problems that threatened both sacerdotal purity and clerical prestige. In The Corrupter of Boys, Dyan argues that clerical discipline settled on openly punishing clerics’ transgressions with women rather than correcting the “unnamable vice” of sodomy among men and boys. The relegation of sodomy to the realm of the unmentionable had the additional consequence that clerics repeatedly failed to address the structural inequities in the cloister and priesthood that made boys and adolescents open to abuse and exploitation.
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Dyan Elliott, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 378 p
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Katherine Clark Walter |
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Zeitschrift: | Mediaevistik, Jg. 34 (2021), S. 297-300 |
Veröffentlichung: | Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers, 2021 |
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ISSN: | 0934-7453 (print) |
DOI: | 10.3726/med.2021.01.30 |
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