Negotiating Clerical Identities [electronic resource] : Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages /
Thibodeaux, J.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Monastic masculinity : bridging secular and clerical identities -- pt. 2. Priestly masculinity : reconciling celibacy and sexuality -- pt. 3. Clerical masculinity : contested identities.
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.
Europe-History.
Europe-History-476-1492.
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History of Medieval Europe.
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