TY - JOUR AU - Katherine Clark Walter PY - 2022 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag JF - Mediaevistik IS - 1 VL - 34 SN - 2199-806X TI - Dyan Elliott, . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 378 p. DO - 10.3726/med.2021.01.30 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1238911 N2 - 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 ER -