IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1220: Crusading, Masculinities, and Otherness, III: Narrative Appropriations
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Sophie Harwood, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1220-a | Other or Not?: Comparing Christian and Muslim Chivalric Culture in the Early Crusading Era (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 1220-b | Turks Without and Within: Masculinity and Otherness in 15th-Century Crusading Rhetoric (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies |
| Paper 1220-c | Constructing Masculine 'Others' in Albigensian Crusade Narratives (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. |