Nuns' Priests' Tales

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 349. Illustrations to text. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. x, 349p., b/w illus., dj (Middle Ages series).

Hardback. New. Nuns' Priests Tales explores the spiritual ideas that motivated priestly service to nuns across Europe and throughout the medieval period, revealing the central role that women played in male spiritual life, and thus moving beyond the reductionist assumption that celibacy defined male spirituality in the age of reform.

Hardback. New. Nuns' Priests Tales explores the spiritual ideas that motivated priestly service to nuns across Europe and throughout the medieval period, revealing the central role that women played in male spiritual life, and thus moving beyond the reductionist assumption that celibacy defined male spirituality in the age of reform.