IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 813: Medieval Masculinities in Crisis, II

Organisers:	Fiona Lillian Knight, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Savannah Pine, Independent Scholar
Moderator/Chair:	Fiona Lillian Knight, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Paper 813-a	Love in the Time of Dysentery: Love and Death between Rūs' Men and Their ghilmān during the Rūs' Occupation of Bardha'a, 943 (Language: English) Tonicha Upham, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Index terms: Gender Studies and Sexuality
Paper 813-b	Being and Becoming a Man in Late Medieval Chivalry (Language: English) Clara de Raigniac, Textes, Représentations, Archéologie, autorité et Mémoire de l'antiquité à la renaissance, Université de Picardie Jules Verne / Centre d'Études et de Recherches Antiques et Médiévales, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Index terms: Gender Studies and Sexuality
Abstract	This panel seeks to explore questions about masculinity in crisis in the Middle Ages. Was masculinity fragile? Anxiety-inducing? Concerning? Or was it, in fact, rarely or never in crisis? What does crisis mean when connected with gender identities and expressions?