masculinity

Pauline Fest 2: gender, ideology and practice from magistra 153 days old

[ ... ] On propaganda (and masculinity), meanwhile, as well as Ross, we had Kirsten Fenton on 'William of Malmesbury and the Anglo-Norman court', looking ...

Hard bodies, soft bodies and power from magistra 181 days old

[ ... ] view of Carolingian masculinity from mine. Which, as we are probably the two people in the world with the greatest interest in Carolingian ...

Middlemarch and male reputation from magistra 208 days old

I’ve been re-reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch and realising how much of the plot I’d forgotten in the several years since I last read it. But reading ...

Birkbeck 6: semi-conforming masculinity from magistra 516 days old

Alexandra Shepard was the keynote early modern speaker at the Birkbeck conference on masculinity I've blogged about before and had some very interesting ...

Birkbeck 5: continuity, change, and the male archive from magistra 528 days old

One of the things that any historian of masculinity comes across when listening to papers across a very wide time span (as at the Birkbeck conference) ...

Birkbeck 4: the political uses of gender history from magistra 533 days old

[ ... ] that the history of masculinity reconnects with its roots in the politics of the New Men’s movements, and political engagement was also one theme ...

Birkbeck 3: analysing misogyny from magistra 536 days old

One of the themes that kept on cropping up in discussions at the Birkbeck conference on masculinity is the extent to which historians of masculinity ...

Birkbeck 2: what is masculinity? from magistra 538 days old

Given that the title of the Birkbeck conference included the question ‘what is masculinity?’, it’s not surprising that there was so much discussion of ...

Birkbeck 1: Ain’t I a medievalist too? from magistra 539 days old

The conference at Birkbeck I’ve just been to on ‘What is masculinity? How useful is it as a historical category?’ was fascinating, if rather overwhelming ...

The eternal Italian male from magistra 651 days old

From Gillian Clark, Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-styles (Oxford, 1993): Remaining at home was not recommended for ascetic men (Jerome, ...