Matthew M Mesley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5666048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew M Mesley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mesley |
| SIGNATURE | MESLEY M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crusading and masculinities
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyses thirteenth-century sermons that sought to engage potential crusaders by urging them to emulate heroic leaders of the past, especially those described in the Old Testament, such as Judas Maccabeus, Matthias, and Abraham. It aims to challenge the contention that becoming a crusader entailed taking on a type of hybrid mascu…
Crusading and Masculinities
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 particip…
Celibate and Childless Men in Power
Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity. The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud,and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapt…
Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages
As Lady Marchmain explains in Brideshead Revisited: ‘Animals are always doing the oddest things in the lives of the saints. It's all part of the poetry, the Alice-in-Wonderland side, of religion’. For historians, at least, the temptation to romanticise medieval texts has, or should have, long ceased to hold sway. Indeed, there has been a growing awareness of the sophisticated literary nature of medieval hagiography. Building upon this foundation,…
Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo‐Saxon England ‐ By Mary Giandrea
Crusading and Masculinities
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 particip…
Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo‐Saxon England ‐ By Mary Giandrea
Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages
As Lady Marchmain explains in Brideshead Revisited: ‘Animals are always doing the oddest things in the lives of the saints. It's all part of the poetry, the Alice-in-Wonderland side, of religion’. For historians, at least, the temptation to romanticise medieval texts has, or should have, long ceased to hold sway. Indeed, there has been a growing awareness of the sophisticated literary nature of medieval hagiography. Building upon this foundation,…
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity. The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud,and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapt…
Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500
Celibate and Childless Men in Power
Crusading and masculinities
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyses thirteenth-century sermons that sought to engage potential crusaders by urging them to emulate heroic leaders of the past, especially those described in the Old Testament, such as Judas Maccabeus, Matthias, and Abraham. It aims to challenge the contention that becoming a crusader entailed taking on a type of hybrid mascu…
Crusading and Masculinities
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 particip…
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