Negotiating clerical identities : priests, monks and masculinity in the Middle Ages /
"Was a medieval priest viewed as masculine by his parishioners? Did a monk consider himself fully male? How did a bishop assert his masculinity in conflicts with secular authorities? These are some of the questions posed by Negotiating clerical identities. In this volume, Jennifer Thibodeaux ha...
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| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Series: | Genders and sexualities in history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : rethinking the medieval clergy and masculinity / Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
- What can historians do with clerical masculinity? lessons from medieval Europe / Derek Neal
- Part I. Monastic masculinity : bridging secular and clerical identities
- The common bond of aristocratic masculinity : monks, secular men, and St. Gerald of Aurillac / Andrew Romig
- The warrior Habitus : militant masculinity and monasticism in the Henrician reform movement / Scott Wells
- Spiritual warriors in citadels of faith : martial rhetoric and monastic masculinity in the long twelfth century / Katherine Allen Smith
- Part II. Priestly masculinity : reconciling celibacy and sexuality
- Saxo Grammaticus's heroic chastity : a model of clerical celibacy and masculinity in medieval Scandinavia / Anthony Perron
- From boys to priests : adolescence, masculinity and the parish clergy in medieval Normandy / Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
- Promiscuous priests and vicarage children : clerical sexuality and masculinity in late medieval England / Janelle Werner
- Part III. Clerical masculinity : contested identities
- Between warrior and priest : the creation of a new masculine identity during the Crusades / Andrew Holt
- Knights, bishops, and deer parks : Episcopal identity, emasculation and clerical space in medieval England / Andrew G. Miller
- Mirror of the scholarly (masculine) soul : scholastics, beguines, and gendered spirituality in medieval Paris / Tanya Stabler Miller.