Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Making Records
	1. Notaries, Registers, and Archives
		Notaries
		Notarial Registers
		Archiving Notarial Registers
		Conclusion
	2. Records as Artifacts and Historical Events
		Testaments
		Inventories and Lists of Household Objects
		Visitation Records
		Conclusion
Part II: The Clerical Familia
	3. Priests as Patriarchs: The Clergy and Their Households
		Clerical Culture in Venice
		Naming the Clergy
		The Clerical Life Cycle
		Youth
		Middle Age
		Bonds with Extended Family
		An Aging Cleric: Graciolus de Sangervasio of Bergamo
		Aging Notaries
		Conclusion
	4. “She Is Not My Wife but a Servant”: Clerics’ Companions
		Names
		Titles and Labels
		Treatment of Women in Venetian Priests’ Testaments
		Vulnerability and Invisibility
		Support
		Companions as Mothers
		Clerics’ Companions as Priests’ Mothers
		Conclusion
	5. Material Culture and Work in the Clerical Domus
		Descriptions of Clerical Housing in City and
 Countryside
		The Material Culture of the Clerical Residence
		Work in the Clerical Residence
		Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index