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Crusading and Masculinities (Paperback)
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Crusading and Masculinities (Paperback)
Series: Crusades - Subsidia
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This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading
and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic
relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of
medieval settings and sources, and to what ends. Ideas about
masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in
which crusading happened, and of the conceptual framework informing
both those who recorded the events and those who participated.
Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better
contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced,
comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around
five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities;
emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and
kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their
analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors
demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding
of crusading as an ideal, an institution and an experience.
Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and
Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula
and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined, thus enabling
cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval
manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing
gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between
different groups of men, whose values and standards of behaviour
were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways.
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