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St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in Medieval Europe. This book constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to explore her cult and the range of meanings which St Katherine embodied for her devotees. The essays between them consider a wide range of evidence, from visual representations (wall paintings, manuscript illuminations, stained glass, and seals), to literary texts (lives of the saint, prayers, hymns, devotional manuscripts, and breviaries) as well as documentary evidence (wills, chronicles, ecclesiastical records and antiquarian writings) and the physical remains of churches and chapels dedicated to St Katherine. These sources are interpreted as part of wider manifestations of devotion to the saint in England, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Wales. The authors approach the cult from varying disciplinary and methodological perspectives, but all seek to uncover the various religious, social and cultural messages contained within the different versions of St Katherine which these particular texts and contexts offer. The volume as a whole therefore sheds light not only on devotion to St Katherine, but also on a much wider range of issues and ideologies governing the lives of her devotees and the societies in which they lived.

Christian women saints - Biography. --- Christian saints - Biography. --- Christian hagiography. --- Catharina v. m. Alexandriae --- Christian women saints --- Christian hagiography --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Cult --- Biography --- Culte --- Biographies --- Catherine, --- 235.3 CATHARINA --- History --- Hagiografie--CATHARINA --- Aecaterina, --- Aikaterina, --- Aikaterinē, --- Caterina, --- Catharina, --- Catharine, --- Dōrothea, --- Ecaterina, --- Ekaterina, --- Katarzyna, --- Katarzyna Aleskandryjska, --- Kateřina, --- Katerine, --- Katharina, --- Katharine, --- Katherina, --- Katherine, --- Katarina, --- Europe, Western --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Religious life and customs. --- Christian saints --- Cult. --- Catherine d'Alexandrie (sainte ; ....-0307?) --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Saints chrétiens --- Hagiographie chrétienne

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History of civilization --- Christian church history --- anno 500-1499 --- Masculinity --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Civilization, Medieval --- Holiness --- Masculinité --- Sainteté --- Civilisation médiévale --- Congresses. --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Masculinity - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Masculinity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500 --- Saints --- Moyen Age

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This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of medieval settings and sources, and to what ends. Ideas about masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in which crusading happened, and of the conceptual framework informing both those who recorded the events and those who participated. Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced, comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities; emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding of crusading as an ideal, an institution and an experience. Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined, thus enabling cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between different groups of men, whose values and standards of behaviour were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways.

Chivalry --- Civilization, Medieval --- Crusades --- Masculinity --- Sex role --- 940.181 --- 316.371 "04/14" --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Men --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Medieval civilization --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Manners and customs --- Orders of knighthood and chivalry --- Courtly love --- Feudalism --- Heraldry --- Knights and knighthood --- 316.371 "04/14" Gender--Middeleeuwen --- Gender--Middeleeuwen --- 940.181 Kruistochten --- Kruistochten --- History --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Islam --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- Croisades --- Masculinité --- Chevalerie --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Aspect social. --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Social aspects. --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles