Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184383863X ISBN 13 : 9781843838630

Editeur : The Boydell Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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

CATHERINE SANOK is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Boydell Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184383863X
• ISBN 13: 9781843838630
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Cullum Pat H, Lewis Katherine J
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• Personne responsable: non disponible