Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.

List of contents

Introduction
From salve to weapon: Torah study, masculinity, and the Babylonian Talmud - Michael L Satlow
Gender and hierarchy: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims [845-882] as a religious man - Rachel Stone
The defense of clerical marriage: religious identity and masculinity in the writings of Anglo-Norman clerics - Jennifer Thibodeaux
Writing masculinity and religious identity in Henry of Huntingdon - Kirsten Fenton
'The quality of his virtus proved him a perfect man': Hereward 'the Wake' and the representation of lay masculinity - Joanna Huntington
Episcopal authority and gender in the narratives of the First Crusade - Matthew M. Mesley
'What man are you?': piety and masculinity in the vitae of a Sienese craftsman and a Provençal nobleman - Marita von Weissenberg
'Imitate, too, this king in virtue, who could have done ill, and did it not': lay sanctity and the rewriting of Henry VI's manliness - Katherine J Lewis
John of Bridlington, mitred prior and model of the mixed life - Catherine Sanok
Why men became monks in late medieval England - James G. Clark
Feasting not fasting: men's devotion to the Eucharist in the later Middle Ages - P H Cullum

About the author

P.H. Cullum, Katherine J. Lewis

Summary

Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.

Product details

• Authors: James G. Clark, P H Cullum, P. H. Cullum, Katherine J Lewis, Katherine J. (Research Associate Lewis, Catherine Sanok, Jennifer Thibodeaux
• Assisted by: P H Cullum (Editor), P. H. Cullum (Editor), P.H. Cullum (Editor), Pat H Cullum (Editor), Pat H. Cullum (Editor), Katherine J Lewis (Editor), Katherine J. Lewis (Editor), Professor Katherine J Lewis (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9781843838630
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-863-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Biografien: Religion und Spirituelles, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources