Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
Pat Cullum|Katherine J. Lewis
The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular ecclesiastical worlds, forms focus for this volume, whose range encompasses rabbis of Babylonian Palestinian Talmud, moves via Carolingian Norman France, Siena, Antioch, high late medieval England to eve Reformation. Chapters investigate creation reconstitution different expressions masculine identity, from clerical enthusiasts marriage lay practitioners chastity, crusading bishops holy kings. They also consider extent which understandings existed an unstable dialectical relationship, at times sharing similar features, others pointedly different, co-opting rejecting features other; articles show interplay be more far complicated than a simple linear narrative either increasing divergence, or colonization masculinity. challenge conventional historiographies adoption celibacy, decline monasticism gendered nature piety. Patricia Cullum is Head History University Huddersfield; Katherine J. Lewis Senior Lecturer Huddersfield. Contributors: James G. Clark, P.H. Cullum, Kirsten A. Fenton, Joanna Huntington, Lewis, Matthew Mesley, Catherine Sanok, Michael L. Satlow, Rachel Stone, Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, Marita von Weissenberg
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