Religious men and masculine identity in the Middle Ages
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...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Woodbridge [u.a.] : Boydell Press,
2013
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Gender in the Middle Ages
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Gender in the Middle Ages |
| Schlagworte: | Masculinity Mönch Mann Identität Geschichte 500-1500 |
| Umfang: | X, 214 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction P.H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis 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 defence of clerical marriage: religious identity and masculinity in the writings of Anglo-Norman clerics Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
- Writing masculinity and religious identity in Henry of Huntingdon Kirsten A. 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 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.