Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

Author:   Pat H Cullum ,  Katherine J Lewis ,  Catherine Sanok (Contributor) ,  James G. Clark
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Volume:   v. 9
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9781783273683


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 February 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity. 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 dialectical relationship, at times sharing similar features, at others pointedly different, co-opting and rejecting features of the other; 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. P.H. CULLUM is Student Experience Co-ordinator for Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield; KATHERINE J. LEWIS is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield. Contributors: James G. Clark, P.H. Cullum, Kirsten A. Fenton, Joanna Huntington, Katherine J. Lewis, Matthew Mesley, Catherine Sanok, Michael L. Satlow, Rachel Stone, Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, Marita von Weissenberg

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Author:   Pat H Cullum ,  Katherine J Lewis ,  Catherine Sanok (Contributor) ,  James G. Clark
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Volume:   v. 9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9781783273683


ISBN 10:   1783273682
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Cullum and Lewis have assembled an overall strong and insightful collection of sources which should prove valuable to scholars of masculinity, clerical culture and medievalists alike. JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND CULTURE A fine set of essays. ... The contributions are well written and argued, and their brief historiographical introductions are very useful. It should provide a springboard for more in-depth study of medieval masculinities. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW [A] stimulating volume. SEHEPUNKTE A rich collection that will be of great interest to scholars of clerical and lay masculinities, the hagiography and cults of male saints, and men's piety. MEDIEVAL REVIEW


Cullum and Lewis have assembled an overall strong and insightful collection of sources which should prove valuable to scholars of masculinity, clerical culture and medievalists alike. * JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND CULTURE * A fine set of essays. ... The contributions are well written and argued, and their brief historiographical introductions are very useful. It should provide a springboard for more in-depth study of medieval masculinities. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW * [A] stimulating volume. * SEHEPUNKTE * A rich collection that will be of great interest to scholars of clerical and lay masculinities, the hagiography and cults of male saints, and men's piety. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *


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KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield. KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.

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