Negotiating Clerical Identities

1. Introduction: Rethinking the Medieval Clergy and Masculinity

1. Introduction: Rethinking the Medieval Clergy and Masculinity
Jennifer D. Thibodeaux

2. What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe

2. What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe
Derek Neal

Part I. Monastic Masculinity: Bridging Secular and Clerical Identities

3. The Common Bond of Aristocratic Masculinity: Monks, Secular Men and St. Gerald of Aurillac
Andrew Romig

4. The Warrior Habitus: Militant Masculinity and Monasticism in the Henrician Reform Movement
Scott Wells

5. 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

6. Saxo Grammaticus’s Heroic Chastity: A Model of Clerical Celibacy and Masculinity in Medieval Scandinavia
Anthony Perron

7. From Boys to Priests: Adolescence, Masculinity and the Parish Clergy in Medieval Normandy
Jennifer D. Thibodeaux

8. Promiscuous Priests and Vicarage Children: Clerical Sexuality and Masculinity in Late Medieval England
Janelle Werner

Part III. Clerical Masculinity: Contested Identities

9. Between Warrior and Priest: The Creation of a New Masculine Identity during the Crusades
Andrew Holt

10. Knights, Bishops and Deer Parks: Episcopal Identity, Emasculation and Clerical Space in Medieval England
Andrew G. Miller

11. Mirror of the Scholarly (Masculine) Soul: Scholastics, Beguines and Gendered Spirituality in Medieval Paris
Tanya Stabler Miller

Avainsanat: History, European History, History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, History of Philosophy, Modern History, History of Science