Masculinizing Religious Life
Sexual Prowess, the Battle for Chastity and Monastic Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21552744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Murray (University of Guelph, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Pages | 71-86 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Florilegium (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0709-5201 • E-ISSN: 2369-7180 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/flor-36.004 |
| OpenAlex | W4390052017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
With the increasing turn to celibacy for monks and priests over the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, one avenue for performing masculinity – sexual prowess and the engendering of children – closed for monks and priests. Jacqueline Murray explores the ways in which the myth of uncontrollable male lust became deployed to enable clerics to redefine masculinity: instead of actual battle, these second sons of the military aristocracy displayed strength and prowess through fighting lust; instead of actual sexual prowess, “real men” could demonstrate masculinity through rationally controlling sexual desires
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Battle · Celibacy · Literature · Lust · Masculinity · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |