Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages : : Un/suitable for Divine Service? / / Ninon Dubourg.
The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition of disability at the highest levels of the medieval Church. These documents acknowledge the existence of physical and/or mental impairments, with the papacy issuing dispensations a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction: A Formal Dialogue
- 1 Legal Origins of the Prohibition on Clerical Disability
- 2 Aetiologies of Impairment: Congenital, Geriatric, and Acquired Conditions
- 3 Joining the Clergy
- 4 Staying in the Clergy
- 5 Leaving the Clergy
- Conclusion
- Index