Negotiating Clerical Identities

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Rethinking the Medieval Clergy and Masculinity; J.D.Thibodeaux What Can Historians do with Clerical Masculinity? D.Neal PART I: MONASTIC MASCULINITY The Common Bond of Aristocratic Masculinity: Monks, Secular Men, and St.Gerald of Aurillac; A.Romig The Warrior Habitus: Militant Masculinity and Monasticism in the Henrician Reform Movement; S.Wells Spiritual Warriors in Citadels of Faith: Martial Rhetoric and Monastic Masculinity in the Long Twelfth Century; K.Allen Smith PART II: PRIESTLY MASCULINITY: RECONCILING CELIBACY AND SEXUALITY Saxo Grammaticus's Heroic Chastity: A Model of Clerical Celibacy and Masculinity in Medieval Scandinavia; A.Perron From Boys to Priests: Adolescence, Masculinity and the Parish Clergy in Medieval Normandy; J.D.Thibodeaux Promiscuous Priests and Vicarage Children: Clerical Sexuality and Masculinity in Late Medieval England; J.Werner PART III: CLERICAL MASCULINITY: CONTESTED IDENTITIES Between Warrior and Priest: The Creation of a New Masculine Identity during the Crusades; A.Holt Knights, Bishops and Deer Parks: Episcopal Identity, Emasculation and Clerical Space in Medieval England; A.Miller Mirror of the Scholarly (Masculine) Soul: Scholastics, Béguines and Gendered Spirituality in Medieval Paris; T.Stabler Miller