Negotiating clerical identities [Elektronisk resurs] priests, monks and masculinity in the middle ages / Edited by Jennifer D. Thibodeaux.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Rethinking the Medieval Clergy and Masculinity-- J.D.Thibodeaux What Can Historians do with Clerical Masculinity? D.Neal PART I: MONASTIC MASCULINITY The Common Bond of Aristocratic Masculinity: Monks, Secular Men, and St.Gerald of Aurillac-- A.Romig The Warrior Habitus: Militant Masculinity and Monasticism in the Henrician Reform Movement-- S.Wells Spiritual Warriors in Citadels of Faith: Martial Rhetoric and Monastic Masculinity in the Long Twelfth Century-- K.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-- A.Perron From Boys to Priests: Adolescence, Masculinity and the Parish Clergy in Medieval Normandy-- J.D.Thibodeaux Promiscuous Priests and Vicarage Children: Clerical Sexuality and Masculinity in Late Medieval England-- J.Werner PART III: CLERICAL MASCULINITY: CONTESTED IDENTITIES Between Warrior and Priest: The Creation of a New Masculine Identity during the Crusades-- A.Holt Knights, Bishops and Deer Parks: Episcopal Identity, Emasculation and Clerical Space in Medieval England-- A.Miller Mirror of the Scholarly (Masculine) Soul: Scholastics, Beguines and Gendered Spirituality in Medieval Paris-- T.Stabler Miller.

• Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts. -- 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. 

Ämnesord

Sociala förhållanden  (sao)

Clergy  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Clergy  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Masculinity  -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

History.  (eflch)

Präster  -- Före 1500 (sao)

Munkar  -- Före 1500 (sao)

Manlighet  -- historia -- religiösa aspekter -- Före 1500 (sao)

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