The Palgrave handbook of masculinity and political culture in Europe /
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| Imprint: | London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11615495 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction: Masculinity and Politik; Power, Authority and Phallic Representations in Ancient Roman Society; The Reign of the Phallus; Politics, Morality and the First Moral Crisis (186 BCE); Education, Upbringing and Authority; Sexuality; Roman Mores and the Greek Threat; The Second Moral Crisis: Caesar and Cleopatra; Political Castration and the Orator's Art; Conclusion; Between Bishops and Barbarians: The Rulers of the Later Roman Empire
- The Rise and Fall of the High Chamberlain Eutropius: Eunuch Identity, the Third Sex and Power in Fourth-Century ByzantiumThe Eunuchs: A Third Sex; Eutropius: The Rise to Power; Eutropius and John Chrysostom; The Campaign of 398 ce, the Consulate and the Patriciate of Eutropius; The Fall of Eutropius; Conclusion; Virile Women and Effeminate Men: Gendered Judgements and the Exercise of Power in the Ottonian Empire c. 1000 ce; Femininity and Manliness Portrayed by the Writers of the Ottonian Period; 'Manly' Women in the Ottonian Period
- A 'Soft and Effeminate' Man: Rudolph III of BurgundyCreating Kin, Extending Authority: Blood-Brotherhood and Power in Medieval Iceland; Blood-Brotherhood in Medieval Europe; Blood-Brotherhood and Masculinity in Medieval Iceland; Social Structures and Power Dynamics in Medieval Iceland; Feud and the Vengeance Imperative; Creating Blood-Brothers in Medieval Iceland; Blood-Brotherhood and Power in Medieval Iceland; Conclusion: Blood-Brotherhood, Power and Masculinity: This Bastion Stands; Beyond Celibacy: Medieval Bishops, Power and Masculinity in the Middle Ages; Bishops and Reform
- Episcopal Culture, Masculinity and LordshipThe Archbishops of Cologne: Conflict and Consensus in the Long Thirteenth Century; Adolf of Altena: Kingmaker, Archbishop and Prince; Adolf of Altena and Innocent III: A Failure of Diplomacy (1199-1205); Innocent Betrayed: Adolf's Support for Philip of Swabia; Faith, Honour and Gender; Masculinity and Political Struggle in the Cities of the Crown of Castile at the End of the Middle Ages; The Language of Virilidad; Theoretical and Moralistic Analyses of Masculinity; Masculinity in Law and Judicial Discursive Practice
- Manhood and Political StruggleConclusion; 'By this My Beard Which Hangs From My Face': The Masculinity of the French Princes in the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War; The Need to Affirm A Perfect Military Masculinity; Discrediting a Prince by Attacking His Masculinity; The Dramatisation of Princely Masculinity; Conclusion; Monarchy and Masculinity in Early Modern England; The Ideal Prince; Minority and Female Rule; An Effeminate King?; Conclusion; Manhood and the English Revolution; Gender, Civil War and Early Modern Political Culture; The King; Cavaliers and Roundheads
