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Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England - Gender, Law and Political Culture (Hardcover)
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Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England - Gender, Law and Political Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
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Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval
England, showing the profound effect played by gender. Conflicts
over treason tormented English political society in the later
Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason
was always a constitutional matter as well as a legal one because
it was pivotal in mediating the relationship between English kings,
their political subjects and the abstraction of the crown. However,
despite renewed interest in constitutional history, there has been
no extended examination of treason in medieval England since the
1970s. This pioneering study presents a new interpretation of
treason, not only as a legal construct, a political weapon and a
tool for constitutional thinking, but also as a cultural category,
aligning it with questions of gender, vernacularity and national
identity. It examines cases from the 1380s to the 1420s, revealing
how kings defended their claims to sovereign authority by using the
laws of treason to bind their mortal male bodies to the enduring
body politic of the realm, and explains how that body politic was
masculinised through its entanglement in contests over manly honour
and homosocial loyalties. Drawing on evidence from trial records,
legislation and chronicles, it illuminates the ways in which
cultural ideals of manhood reinforced or subverted government
responses to crises of legitimacy, and demonstrates that gender
conditioned understandings of treason in the political arena as
well as the definitions embedded in statutes and case law. At the
same time, it explores the varied ways men defended themselves from
accusations of treason by invoking, and in the process helping to
transform, shared beliefs about what it meant to be a man in
medieval England.
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