IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1020: Crusading, Masculinities, and Otherness, I: Crusade Leaders
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades |
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| Organiser: | Katherine J. Lewis, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1020-a | Gone Boy: Tancred and the Discovery of Masculinity in Ralph of Caen (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies |
| Paper 1020-b | Baldwin I, the Much-Married Man (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Sexuality |
| Paper 1020-c | Masculinity and Otherness in 12th-Century Representations of Crusade Leaders (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies |
| Abstract | The three proposed sessions on Crusading, Masculinities, and Otherness seek to demonstrate the value of crusade sources to an exploration of socio-cultural perceptions and constructions of what it meant to be a man. They thus provide a vital means of understanding the basis and maintenance of medieval patriarchal social and political hierarchies more widely, yet are still relatively unexplored in terms of gender. Between them the sessions will consider the ways in which ideologies of masculinity were used by authors writing in both Christian and Islamic traditions, alongside those of social status, religion, and ethnicity, to represent and assess men, and sometimes women. Ideals of manliness were a crucial means of establishing normative values and behaviours, and thus also served to identify certain groups and individuals as 'other' to these. |