Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England

Langue : anglais

Edité par Boydell and Brewer Ltd, GB, 2020

1783275553 / 9781783275557

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Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always a constitutional matter as well as a legal one because it was pivotal in mediating the relationship between English kings, their political subjects and the abstraction of the crown. However, despite renewed interest in constitutional history, there has been no extended examination of treason in medieval England since the 1970s. This pioneering study presents a new interpretation of treason, not only as a legal construct, a political weapon and a tool for constitutional thinking, but also as a cultural category, aligning it with questions of gender, vernacularity and national identity. It examines cases from the 1380s to the 1420s, revealing how kings defended their claims to sovereign authority by using the laws of treason to bind their mortal male bodies to the enduring body politic of the realm, and explains how that body politic was masculinised through its entanglement in contests over manly honour and homosocial loyalties. Drawing on evidence from trial records, legislation and chronicles, it illuminates the ways in which cultural ideals of manhood reinforced or subverted government responses to crises of legitimacy, and demonstrates that gender conditioned understandings of treason in the political arena as well as the definitions embedded in statutes and case law. At the same time, it explores the varied ways men defended themselves from accusations of treason by invoking, and in the process helping to transform, shared beliefs about what it meant to be a man in medieval England.…

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Titre
Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England
Auteur
E. Amanda McVitty
Éditeur
Boydell and Brewer Ltd, GB
Année de publication
2020
État de l'article
New
Reliure
Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1783275553
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781783275557
Poids de l'article
1 gramme
Série
Livre 1 sur 1: Gender in the Middle Ages

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