Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Holiness and masculinity in medieval Europe / P.H.Cullum -- Holiness and masculinity in Aldhelm's Opus geminatum de virginitate / Emma Pettit -- Masculinizing religious life : sexual prowess, the battle for chastity, and monastic identity / Jacqueline Murray -- Matronly monks : Theodoret of Cyrrhus' sexual imagery in the Historia religiosa / Christopher C. Craun -- Bride or bridegroom? : masculine identity in mystic marriages / Carolyn Diskant Muir -- Henry Suso and the divine knighthood / Meri Heinonen -- Holy eunuchs! : masculinity and eunuch saints in Byzantium / Shaun Tougher -- The signification of the tonsure / Robert Mills -- Christian sanctuary and repository of France's political culture : the construction of holiness and masculinity at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, 987-1328 / Dawn Marie Hayes -- Self-mastery and submission : holiness and masculinity in the lives of Anglo-Saxon martyr-kings / Edward Christie -- Edmund of East Anglia, Henry VI, and ideals of kingly masculinity / Katherine J. Lewis -- Monarchy, martyrdom, and masculinity : England in the later Middle Ages / W.M. Ormrod -- Making youth holy : holiness and masculinity in The interlude of youth / Fiona S. Dunlop -- The Catholic gentlemen of the north : unreformed in the Age of Reformation? / Sarah L. Bastow.

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