| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
priests, monks and masculinity in the Middle Ages |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
ThibodeauxJennifer D., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiii, 269 p.) |
| Series: |
Genders and sexualities in history |
| Subject: |
Clergy - Social conditions. - |
| Subject: |
Clergy - History - To 1500. - |
| Subject: |
Masculinity - Religious aspects - To 1500. - |
| Subject: |
RELIGION - Christian Ministry - |
| Subject: |
Klerus. - |
| Subject: |
M�annlichkeit. - |
| Subject: |
Sexuelle Identit�at. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230290464An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
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 Ages. In this volume, Jennifer Thibodeaux has assembled the most cutting-edge research today on medieval clerics and masculine performances. Spanning a wide range of geographical contexts and time periods, the essays in this volume illuminate the ways in which medieval clerics performed masculinity and negotiated their gender identities, with both lay society and within the various orders of the medieval Church. |
| ISBN: |
9780230290464electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230290469electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780230222205hbk. |
| ISBN: |
023022220Xhbk. |
| Content Note: |
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. |