Cleaning Up the Devil’s House: Clerics, Sex and Violence in the Post-Tridentine Papal States

Menica Curiole’s story—a young woman, separated from her husband, who died from injuries inflicted by a priest in 1592—is a multivalent one. As a local event, Menica’s story was one of a woman on the margins in Corneto (now Tarquinia) attempting to survive; the priest, Balzagrano, who paid her oster...

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Main Author: Wickersham, Jane K. 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2023
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 99-118
IxTheo Classification:KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBJ Italy
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NCF Sexual ethics
RB Church office; congregation
SB Catholic Church law
Further subjects:B CLERGY'S sexual behavior
B PAPAL States
B PRIESTS' sexual behavior
B ART & Faith in Tridentine Spain (Book)
B INDEX librorum prohibitorum
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