Download or read book Negotiating Clerical Identities written by J. Thibodeaux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts.