Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 269 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780230222205
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in history
Content:
Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Rethinking the Medieval Clergy and Masculinity; 1 What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe; Part I: Monastic Masculinity: Bridging Secular and Clerical Identities; 2 The Common Bond of Aristocratic Masculinity: Monks, Secular Men and St. Gerald of Aurillac; 3 The Warrior Habitus: Militant Masculinity and Monasticism in the Henrician Reform Movement; 4 Spiritual Warriors in Citadels of Faith: Martial Rhetoric and Monastic Masculinity in the Long Twelfth Century
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Part II: Priestly Masculinity: Reconciling Celibacy and Sexuality5 Saxo Grammaticus's Heroic Chastity: A Model of Clerical Celibacy and Masculinity in Medieval Scandinavia; 6 From Boys to Priests: Adolescence, Masculinity and the Parish Clergy in Medieval Normandy; 7 Promiscuous Priests and Vicarage Children: Clerical Sexuality and Masculinity in Late Medieval England; Part III: Clerical Masculinity: Contested Identities; 8 Between Warrior and Priest: The Creation of a New Masculine Identity during the Crusades
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9 Knights, Bishops and Deer Parks: Episcopal Identity, Emasculation and Clerical Space in Medieval England10 Mirror of the Scholarly (Masculine) Soul: Scholastics, Beguines and Gendered Spirituality in Medieval Paris; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230290464
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230222205
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Negotiating Clerical Identities : Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages
Language:
English
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