Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire
Title | Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Stone |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139503030 |
What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between religious reformers and the lay political elite they addressed. It uses the numerous texts addressed to a lay audience (including lay mirrors, secular poetry, political polemic, historical writings and legislation) to examine how biblical and patristic moral ideas were reshaped to become compatible with the realities of noble life in the Carolingian empire. This innovative analysis of Carolingian moral norms demonstrates how gender interacted with political and religious thought to create a distinctive Frankish elite culture, presenting a new picture of early medieval masculinity.
Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire
Title | Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Postdoctoral Research Associate Rachel Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Carolingians |
ISBN | 9781139190794 |
What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between religious reformers and the lay political elite they addressed. It uses the numerous texts addressed to a lay audience (including lay mirrors, secular poetry, political polemic, historical writings and legislation) to examine how Biblical and patristic moral ideas were reshaped to become compatible with the realities of noble life in the Carolingian empire. This innovative analysis of Carolingian moral norms demonstrates how gender interacted with political and religious thought to create a distinctive Frankish elite culture, presenting a new picture of early medieval masculinity.
Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire: Power and wealth
Title | Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire: Power and wealth PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Carolingians |
ISBN | 9781107227569 |
"What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between religious reformers and the lay political elite they addressed. It uses the numerous texts addressed to a lay audience (including lay mirrors, secular poetry, political polemic, historical writings and legislation) to examine how Biblical and patristic moral ideas were reshaped to become compatible with the realities of noble life in the Carolingian empire. This innovative analysis of Carolingian moral norms demonstrates how gender interacted with political and religious thought to create a distinctive Frankish elite culture, presenting a new picture of early medieval masculinity"--
Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire: Men and morality
Title | Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire: Men and morality PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Carolingians |
ISBN | 9781139183574 |
"What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between religious reformers and the lay political elite they addressed. It uses the numerous texts addressed to a lay audience (including lay mirrors, secular poetry, political polemic, historical writings and legislation) to examine how Biblical and patristic moral ideas were reshaped to become compatible with the realities of noble life in the Carolingian empire. This innovative analysis of Carolingian moral norms demonstrates how gender interacted with political and religious thought to create a distinctive Frankish elite culture, presenting a new picture of early medieval masculinity"--
Masculinity, Nobility and the Moral Instruction of the Carolingian Lay Elite
Title | Masculinity, Nobility and the Moral Instruction of the Carolingian Lay Elite PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire
Title | Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Bryan Gillis |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-02-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192518275 |
Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of Orbais. Frankish Christianity required obedience to ecclesiastical superiors, voluntary participation in reform, and the belief that salvation was possible for all baptized believers. Yet Gottschalk-a mere priest-developed a controversial, Augustinian-based theology of predestination, claiming that only divine election through grace enabled eternal life. Gottschalk preached to Christians within the Frankish empire-including bishops-and non-Christians beyond its borders, scandalously demanding they confess his doctrine or be revealed as wicked reprobates. Even after his condemnations for heresy in the late 840s, Gottschalk continued his activities from prison thanks to monks who smuggled his pamphlets to a subterranean community of supporters. This study reconstructs the career of the Carolingian Empire's foremost religious dissenter in order to imagine that empire from the perspective of someone who worked to subvert its most fundamental beliefs. Examining the surviving evidence (including his own writings), Matthew Gillis analyzes Gottschalk's literary and spiritual self-representations, his modes of argument, his prophetic claims to martyrdom and miraculous powers, and his shocking defiance to bishops as strategies for influencing contemporaries in changing political circumstances. In the larger history of medieval heresy and dissent, Gottschalk's case reveals how the Carolingian Empire preserved order within the church through coercive reform. The hierarchy compelled Christians to accept correction of perceived sins and errors, while punishing as sources of spiritual corruption those rare dissenters who resisted its authority.
What is Masculinity?
Title | What is Masculinity? PDF eBook |
Author | J. Arnold |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2011-06-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230307256 |
Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.