Kleriker und Laien

Verfestigung und Verflüssigung einer Grenze im Mittelalter
Edited by Jonathan Reinert and Volker Leppin
[Clergy and Laity. The Stabilising and Blurring of a Boundary in the Middle Ages.]
2021. VIII, 313 pages.
Published in German.
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  • 978-3-16-160801-8
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Summary
In medieval canon law, it is said that there were two kinds of people: clergy and laity. But on closer examination, what seems to be clear becomes highly complex. This interdisciplinary volume investigates the processes that both stabilised and blurred the boundary between clergy and laity.

Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation (SMHR)