Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.

Introduction From salve to weapon: Torah study, masculinity, and the Babylonian Talmud - Michael L Satlow Gender and hierarchy: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims [845-882] as a religious man - Rachel Stone The defense of clerical marriage: religious identity and masculinity in the writings of Anglo-Norman clerics - Jennifer Thibodeaux Writing masculinity and religious identity in Henry of Huntingdon - Kirsten Fenton 'The quality of his virtus proved him a perfect man': Hereward 'the Wake' and the representation of lay masculinity - Joanna Huntington Episcopal authority and gender in the narratives of the First Crusade - Matthew M. Mesley 'What man are you?': piety and masculinity in the vitae of a Sienese craftsman and a Provencal nobleman - Marita von Weissenberg '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 - Katherine J Lewis John of Bridlington, mitred prior and model of the mixed life - Catherine Sanok Why men became monks in late medieval England - James G. Clark Feasting not fasting: men's devotion to the Eucharist in the later Middle Ages - P H Cullum