Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages - Gender in the Middle Ages

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages - Gender in the Middle Ages

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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. Patricia Cullum is Head of History 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
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781843838630
ISBN10 184383863X
Number Of Pages 224
Item Weight 556 g
Publisher / Reseller Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format hardback
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Cullum and Lewis have assembled an overall strong and insightful collection of sources which should prove valuable to scholars of masculinity, clerical culture and medievalists alike. * JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND CULTURE *
A fine set of essays. ... The contributions are well written and argued, and their brief historiographical introductions are very useful. It should provide a springboard for more in-depth study of medieval masculinities. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *
[A] stimulating volume. * SEHEPUNKTE *
A rich collection that will be of great interest to scholars of clerical and lay masculinities, the hagiography and cults of male saints, and men's piety. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *

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Author's Bio

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.

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