Benefit of Clergy in England in the Later Middle Ages
In: Smith College Studies in History 14,1/4
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Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The rural ministry survey -- Understanding stress and stressors -- Secular coping : a process-centred approach -- The process of religious coping -- Assessing professional burnout -- References -- Index.
In: The Middle Ages series
"In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of augmented claims to holiness. Because clerical celibacy was key to this distinction, religious authorities of all stripes-patristic authors, popes, theologians, canonists, monastic founders, and commentators-became progressively sensitive to sexual scandals that involved the clergy and developed sophisticated tactics for concealing or dispelling embarrassing lapses. The fear of scandal dictated certain lines of action and inaction, the consequences of which are painfully apparent today. This book discusses how the scandal-averse policies, which existed at every conceivable level of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy, resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys and male adolescents"--