Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society. This first bro

Maureen C. Miller traces the ways in which clerical garb changed over the Middle Ages. Miller goes into detail about craft, artistry, and textiles and contribut

This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double r

This book analyzes the acquisition and use of texts by the parish clergy in the diocese of Eichstätt between 1400 and 1520 to refute the amusing, but misleadin

The first broad-ranging social history in English of the medieval secular clergy.