Awards

• Short-listed for Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize 2018 (United States)
• Winner of Best First Book of Feminist Scholarship on the Middle Ages 2018 (United States)
• Winner of John Gilmary Shea Prize 2018 (United States)
• Winner of Premio del Rey 2018 (United States)

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Defiant Priests enormously extends the work initiated by scholars on the spot to provide an instructive and continuously illuminating account of the domestic bliss enjoyed (or suffered) by the local clergy. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Defiant Priests is a detailed and engaging study of the ecclesiastical responsibilities, household organization, and survival strategies of clerics in fourteenth-century Catalunya, and it makes an important contribution to this growing body of literature [exploring clerical responses to the rigid demands of Christian church reform measures].... The volume of [visitation] records used in the study is striking, and the wealth of relationships that Armstrong-Partida has identified within them makes the book a valuable contribution to the field. -- Roisin Cossar * American Historical Review *

Defiant Priests is a detailed and engaging study of the ecclesiastical responsibilities, household organization, and survival strategies of clerics in fourteenth-century Catalunya, and it makes an important contribution to this growing body of literature [exploring clerical responses to the rigid demands of Christian church reform measures].... The volume of [visitation] records used in the study is striking, and the wealth of relationships that Armstrong-Partida has identified within them makes the book a valuable contribution to the field. --Roisin Cossar American Historical Review Michelle Armstrong-Partida's splendid book is essential reading for anyone interested in clerical masculinity across medieval Europe. Defiant Priests is extremely well grounded in past and present. Armstrong-Partida makes excellent use of extensive, unpublished primary sources, secondary sources from other areas of Europe, and virtually all the literature on medieval masculinities to put the situation in Catalonia into context. She makes a persuasive argument about the nature of clerical masculinity and its incorporation of lay masculine values, especially pertaining to domestic partners, children, and violence. --Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph, editor of Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond

Defiant Priests is a detailed and engaging study of the ecclesiastical responsibilities, household organization, and survival strategies of clerics in fourteenth-century Catalunya, and it makes an important contribution to this growing body of literature [exploring clerical responses to the rigid demands of Christian church reform measures].... The volume of [visitation] records used in the study is striking, and the wealth of relationships that Armstrong-Partida has identified within them makes the book a valuable contribution to the field. -- Roisin Cossar * American Historical Review * Defiant priests enormously extends the work initiated by scholars on the spot to provide an instructive and continuously illuminating account of the domestic bliss enjoyed (or suffered) by the local clergy. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *

Defiant Priests is a detailed and engaging study of the ecclesiastical responsibilities, household organization, and survival strategies of clerics in fourteenth-century Catalunya, and it makes an important contribution to this growing body of literature [exploring clerical responses to the rigid demands of Christian church reform measures].... The volume of [visitation] records used in the study is striking, and the wealth of relationships that Armstrong-Partida has identified within them makes the book a valuable contribution to the field. -- Roisin Cossar * American Historical Review * Defiant Priests enormously extends the work initiated by scholars on the spot to provide an instructive and continuously illuminating account of the domestic bliss enjoyed (or suffered) by the local clergy. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *

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Michelle Armstrong-Partida is Assistant Professor of History at Emory University.

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