Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
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Chastity
Clerical celibacy
Ecclesiastical world
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Gender roles
Historical analysis
Masculine identity
Medieval society
Middle Ages
Monasticism
Religious institutions
Religious masculinity
Religious practices
Secular world
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- ISBN 9781783273683
- Weight: 314g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2019
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.
The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud,and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapters investigate the creation and reconstitution of different expressions of masculine identity, from the clerical enthusiasts for marriage to the lay practitioners of chastity, from crusading bishops to holy kings. They also consider the extent to which lay and clerical understandings of masculinity existed in an unstable dialectical relationship, at times sharing similar features, at others pointedly different, co-opting and rejecting features of the other; the articles show this interplay to be more far more complicated than a simple linear narrative of either increasing divergence, or of clerical colonization of lay masculinity. They also challenge conventional historiographies of the adoption of clerical celibacy, of the decline of monasticism and the gendered nature of piety.
P.H. CULLUM is Student Experience Co-ordinator for Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield; KATHERINE J. LEWIS is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.
Contributors: James G. Clark, P.H. Cullum, Kirsten A. Fenton, Joanna Huntington, Katherine J. Lewis, Matthew Mesley, Catherine Sanok, Michael L. Satlow, Rachel Stone, Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, Marita von Weissenberg
KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield. CATHERINE SANOK is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.
