An original and highly accessible collection of essays which is based on a huge range of historical sources to reveal the realities of mens' lives in the Middle

While the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belonging to a particular gro

Studies in gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity, however the study of medieval masculinities has developed greatly over the last few ye

Since the mid-1970s men's studies, and gender studies has earned its place in scholarship. What's often missing from such studies, however, is the insight that

In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coi