Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- From salve to weapon: Torah study, masculinity, and the Babylonian Talmud
- Gender and hierarchy: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (845–882) as a religious man
- The defence of clerical marriage: Religious identity and masculinity in the writings of Anglo-Norman clerics
- Writing masculinity and religious identity in Henry of Huntingdon
- ‘The quality of his virtus proved him a perfect man’: Hereward ‘the Wake’ and the representation of lay masculinity
- Episcopal authority and gender in the narratives of the First Crusade
- ‘What man are you?’: Piety and masculinity in the vitae of a Sienese craftsman and a Provençal nobleman
- ‘Imitate, too, this king in virtue, who could have done ill, and did it not’: Lay sanctity and the rewriting of Henry VI's manliness
- John of Bridlington, mitred prior and model of the mixed life
- Why men became monks in late medieval England
- Feasting not fasting: Men's devotion to the Eucharist in the later Middle Ages
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- From salve to weapon: Torah study, masculinity, and the Babylonian Talmud
- Gender and hierarchy: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (845–882) as a religious man
- The defence of clerical marriage: Religious identity and masculinity in the writings of Anglo-Norman clerics
- Writing masculinity and religious identity in Henry of Huntingdon
- ‘The quality of his virtus proved him a perfect man’: Hereward ‘the Wake’ and the representation of lay masculinity
- Episcopal authority and gender in the narratives of the First Crusade
- ‘What man are you?’: Piety and masculinity in the vitae of a Sienese craftsman and a Provençal nobleman
- ‘Imitate, too, this king in virtue, who could have done ill, and did it not’: Lay sanctity and the rewriting of Henry VI's manliness
- John of Bridlington, mitred prior and model of the mixed life
- Why men became monks in late medieval England
- Feasting not fasting: Men's devotion to the Eucharist in the later Middle Ages
- Index
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- Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages , pp. viii - ixPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013