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In Defiant Priests, Michelle Armstrong-Partida uses evidence from extraordinary archives in four Catalan dioceses to show that maintaining a family with a domestic partner was not only a custom entrenched in Catalan clerical culture but also an essential component of priestly masculine identity.
Michelle Armstrong-Partida is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso.
"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 Armstrong-Partida makes excellent use of extensive, unpublished primary sources, secondary sources from other areas of Europe, and virtually all the literature on medieval masculinities to put the situation in Catalonia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."
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