Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.

The Manly Priest examines the clerical celibacy movement in medieval England and Normandy, which produced a new model of religious masculinity for the priesthoo

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 in

Since the mid-1970s men's studies, and gender studies has earned its place in scholarship. What's often missing from such studies, however, is the insight that

This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends