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Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

By Cullum, P. H.

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages Books

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

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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 and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapters investigate the creation and reconstitution of different expressions of masculine identity, from the clerical enthusiasts for marriage to the lay practitioners of chastity, from crusading bishops to holy kings. They also consider the extent to which lay and clerical understandings of masculinity existed in an unstable relationship, at times sharing similar features, at others pointedly different; the articles show this interplay to be more far more complicated than a simple linear narrative of either increasing divergence, or of clerical colonization of lay masculinity. They also challenge conventional historiographies of the adoption of clerical celibacy, of the decline of monasticism and the gendered nature of piety.
Product details
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2013-08-15
Publication Date:
2013-08-15
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
184383863X
ISBN13:
9781843838630
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
508 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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