Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Introduction 1
7. From salve to weapon: Torah study, masculinity, and the Babylonian Talmud 16
8. Gender and hierarchy: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (845–882) as a religious man 28
9. The defence of clerical marriage: Religious identity and masculinity in the writings of Anglo-Norman clerics 46
10. Writing masculinity and religious identity in Henry of Huntingdon 64
11. ‘The quality of his virtus proved him a perfect man’: Hereward ‘the Wake’ and the representation of lay masculinity 77
12. Episcopal authority and gender in the narratives of the First Crusade 94
13. ‘What man are you?’: Piety and masculinity in the vitae of a Sienese craftsman and a Provençal nobleman 112
14. ‘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 126
15. John of Bridlington, mitred prior and model of the mixed life 143
16. Why men became monks in late medieval England 160
17. Feasting not fasting: Men’s devotion to the Eucharist in the later Middle Ages 184
18. Index 201