Holiness And Masculinity In The Middle Ages

by Cullum, P. H.; Lewis, Katherine J.

• ISBN13: 9780708318942
• ISBN10: 0708318940
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-16
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Summary

Concentrating on the topic of masculinity in medieval gender studies, these essays examine the ways in which varieties of medieval masculinity intersected with concepts of holiness. Noting a wide variety of texts and historical contexts, these writings explore differing notions of medieval holiness understood as religious, saintly, sacred, pure, and morally perfect, as well as a variety of topics that include the significance of the tonsure, sanctity and martyrdom, eunuch saints, and the writings of Henry Suso.

Author Biography

P. H. Cullum is a Principal Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Huddersfield. She has published widely on hospitals and charity in late medieval England. Katherine J. Lewis is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Huddersfield. She is the author of The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Series Editors' Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Notes on Contributors	xiii
Abbreviations	xvi
1 Introduction: Holiness and Masculinity in Medieval Europe
P.H. Cullum	1	(7)
2 Holiness and Masculinity in Aldhelm's Opus Geminatum De virginitate
Emma Pettit	8	(16)
3 Masculinizing Religious Life: Sexual Prowess, the Battle for Chastity and Monastic Identity
Jacqueline Murray	24	(19)
4 Matronly Monks: Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Sexual Imagery in the Historia Religiosa
Christopher C. Craun	43	(15)
5 Bride or Bridegroom? Masculine Identity in Mystic Marriages
Carolyn Diskant Muir	58	(21)
6 Henry Suso and the Divine Knighthood
Meri Heinonen	79	(14)
7 Holy Eunuchs! Masculinity and Eunuch Saints in Byzantium
Shaun Tougher	93	(16)
8 The Signification of the Tonsure
Robert Mills	109	(18)
9 Christian Sanctuary and Repository of France's Political Culture: The Construction of Holiness and Masculinity at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, 987-1328
Dawn Marie Hayes	127	(16)
10 Self-Mastery and Submission: Holiness and Masculinity in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon Martyr-Kings
Edward Christie	143	(15)
11 Edmund of East Anglia, Henry VI and Ideals of Kingly Masculinity
Katherine J. Lewis	158	(16)
12 Monarchy, Martyrdom and Masculinity: England in the Later Middle Ages
W.M. Ormrod	174	(18)
13 Making Youth Holy: Holiness and Masculinity in The Interlude of Youth
Fiona S. Dunlop	192	(14)
14 The Catholic Gentlemen of the North: Unreformed in the Age of Reformation?
Sarah L. Bastow	206	(16)
Index	222