%0 Journal Article
%A Katherine Clark Walter
%D 2022
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%J Mediaevistik
%@ 2199-806X
%N 1
%V 34
%T Dyan Elliott, . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 378 p.
%R 10.3726/med.2021.01.30
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1238911
%X A perpetual problem in church history is ecclesiastics setting the bar too high for human success: compulsory celibacy, sought because Church leaders believed it preserved priests’ purity and status, inevitably led to problems that threatened both sacerdotal purity and clerical prestige. In