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The Medieval Church · c. 1049
The Book of Gomorrah
Liber Gomorrhianus
Peter Damian · c. 1007–1072
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What it is
An unsparing denunciation addressed to the pope concerning sexual misconduct among the clergy and the practice of confessors absolving their own partners.
Why it lasted
The sharpest document of the eleventh-century reform's campaign for clerical celibacy, and a text the papacy received with some discomfort.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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