Title: Negotiating clerical identities : priests, monks and masculinity in the Middle Ages /
Authors: Thibodeaux, Jennifer D.; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Clergy Social conditions.; Clergy History; Masculinity Religious aspects History; Masculinity Europe History; Church history
Abstract: "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. 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, both with lay society and within the various orders of the medieval church."--Back cover
Contents: 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.