Unnatural Frenchmen : the politics of priestly celibacy and marriage, 1720-1815 /
E. Claire Cage.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Clerical celibacy from early Christianity to the Ancien regime -- An unnatural state: the clerical celibacy controversy in Enlightenment France -- Priests into citizens: clerical marriage during the early Revolution, 1789-1793 -- A social crime: clerical celibacy from the Terror to Napoleon -- Married priests in the Napoleonic era.