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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.
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.
Women's role in crusades and crusading examined through a close
investigation of the narratives in which they appear. Narratives of
crusading have often been overlooked as a source for the history of
women because of their focus on martial events, and perceptions
about women inhibiting the recruitment and progress of crusading
armies. Yet women consistently appeared in the histories of crusade
and settlement, performing a variety of roles. While some were
vilified as "useless mouths" or prostitutes, others undertook
menial tasks for the army, went on crusade with retinuesof their
own knights, and rose to political prominence in the Levant and and
the West. This book compares perceptions of women from a wide range
of historical narratives including those eyewitness accounts, lay
histories andmonastic chronicles that pertained to major crusade
expeditions and the settler society in the Holy Land. It addresses
how authors used events involving women and stereotypes based on
gender, family role, and social status in writing their histories:
how they blended historia and fabula, speculated on women's
motivations, and occasionally granted them a literary voice in
order to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, and
justify the crusade ideal. NATASHA HODGSON is Lecturer in Medieval
History at Nottingham Trent University..
Women's role in crusades and crusading examined through a close
investigation of the narratives in which they appear. Narratives of
crusading have often been overlooked as a source for the history of
women because of their focus on martial events, and perceptions
about women inhibiting the recruitment and progress of crusading
armies. Yet women consistently appeared in the histories of crusade
and settlement, performing a variety of roles. While some were
vilified as "useless mouths" or prostitutes, others undertook
menial tasks for the army, went on crusade with retinuesof their
own knights, and rose to political prominence in the Levant and and
the West. This book compares perceptions of women from a wide range
of historical narratives including those eyewitness accounts, lay
histories andmonastic chronicles that pertained to major crusade
expeditions and the settler society in the Holy Land. It addresses
how authors used events involving women and stereotypes based on
gender, family role, and social status in writing their histories:
how they blended historia and fabula, speculated on women's
motivations, and occasionally granted them a literary voice in
order to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, and
justify the crusade ideal. Dr NATASHA R. HODGSON teaches at
Nottingham Trent University.
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