Negotiating Clerical Identities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Rethinking the Medieval Clergy and Masculinity

   1. Introduction: Rethinking the Medieval Clergy and Masculinity

      • Jennifer D. Thibodeaux

      Pages 1-15

3. What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe

   1. What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe

      • Derek Neal

      Pages 16-36

4. Monastic Masculinity: Bridging Secular and Clerical Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. The Common Bond of Aristocratic Masculinity: Monks, Secular Men and St. Gerald of Aurillac

      • Andrew Romig

      Pages 39-56

   3. The Warrior Habitus: Militant Masculinity and Monasticism in the Henrician Reform Movement

      • Scott Wells

      Pages 57-85

   4. Spiritual Warriors in Citadels of Faith: Martial Rhetoric and Monastic Masculinity in the Long Twelfth Century

      • Katherine Allen Smith

      Pages 86-110

5. Priestly Masculinity: Reconciling Celibacy and Sexuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Saxo Grammaticus’s Heroic Chastity: A Model of Clerical Celibacy and Masculinity in Medieval Scandinavia

      • Anthony Perron

      Pages 113-135

   3. From Boys to Priests: Adolescence, Masculinity and the Parish Clergy in Medieval Normandy

      • Jennifer D. Thibodeaux

      Pages 136-158

   4. Promiscuous Priests and Vicarage Children: Clerical Sexuality and Masculinity in Late Medieval England

      • Janelle Werner

      Pages 159-181

6. Clerical Masculinity: Contested Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Between Warrior and Priest: The Creation of a New Masculine Identity during the Crusades

      • Andrew Holt

      Pages 185-203

   3. Knights, Bishops and Deer Parks: Episcopal Identity, Emasculation and Clerical Space in Medieval England

      • Andrew G. Miller

      Pages 204-237

   4. Mirror of the Scholarly (Masculine) Soul: Scholastics, Beguines and Gendered Spirituality in Medieval Paris

      • Tanya Stabler Miller

      Pages 238-264

7. Back Matter

   Pages 265-269

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Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts.

• crusades
• England
• identity
• Middle Ages
• reform
• society

'Overall, I highly recommend Negotiating Clerical Identities to faculty, graduate students and undergraduates who work in the fields of gender, religion, and sexuality studies. The volume fulfills perfectly the mission of Palgrave's innovative Genders and Sexualities in History Series precisely because the contributors contest the universality of medieval masculinity and do so with interpretative flair and scholarly integrity.' - Lynda L. Coon, The Medieval Review

• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA

  Jennifer D. Thibodeaux

ANDREW HOLT Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department, University of Florida, USA ANDREW MILLER Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA TANYA STABLER MILLER Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University-Calumet, USA DEREK NEAL Assistant Professor of History, Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada ANTHONY PERRON Assistant Professor of Medieval History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA ANDREW ROMIG Assistant Director, Studies for the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University, USA KATHERINE ALLEN SMITH Assistant Professor of History, the University of Puget Sound, USA SCOTT WELLS Associate Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, USA JANELLE WERNER Assistant Professor of History, Kalamazoo College, USA.

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