Children of Disorder: Clerical Parentage, Illegitimacy, and Reform in the Middle Ages
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2006
Publication Title
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Abstract
This article presents a perspective on the meaning and effect of legitimate and illegitimate birth in the works of medieval scholars, canonists, and theologians. It has been noted that the institutional church's interest in and influence over birth status rested upon its purview over sin, and sin was a matter in which the patrimony of the legitimate and illegitimate was equal. Furthermore, hereditary transmission of status from parent to child through legitimate birth was so firmly entrenched in medieval society.
Repository Citation
Wertheimer, Laura A., "Children of Disorder: Clerical Parentage, Illegitimacy, and Reform in the Middle Ages" (2006). History Faculty Publications. 64.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clhist_facpub/64
Original Citation
Wertheimer, L. (2006). Children of disorder: clerical parentage, illegitimacy, and reform in the Middle Ages. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 15, 3.)
Volume
15
Issue
3
DOI
10.1353/sex.2007.0023
