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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: Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thibodeaux, Jennifer D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Colección:Genders and sexualities in history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.