Session1220
TitleCrusading, Masculinities, and Otherness, III: Narrative Appropriations
Date/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 14.15-15.45
 
SponsorNorthern Network for the Study of the Crusades
 
OrganiserKatherine J. Lewis, Department of Communication & Humanities, University of Huddersfield
 
Moderator/ChairSophie Harwood, Sprachenzentrum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
 
Paper 1220-a Other or Not?: Comparing Christian and Muslim Chivalric Culture in the Early Crusading Era
(Language: English)
Matthew Bennett, School of History & Archaeology, University of Winchester
Index Terms: Crusades; Gender Studies; Islamic and Arabic Studies; Language and Literature - French or Occitan
Paper 1220-b Turks Without and Within: Masculinity and Otherness in 15th-Century Crusading Rhetoric
(Language: English)
Katherine J. Lewis, Department of Communication & Humanities, University of Huddersfield
Index Terms: Crusades; Gender Studies
Paper 1220-c Constructing Masculine 'Others' in Albigensian Crusade Narratives
(Language: English)
Natasha Ruth Hodgson, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Index Terms: Crusades; Gender Studies
 
AbstractThe three proposed sessions on Crusading, Masculinities, and Otherness seek to demonstrate the value of crusade sources to an exploration of socio-cultural perceptions and constructions of what it meant to be a man. They thus provide a vital means of understanding the basis and maintenance of medieval patriarchal social and political hierarchies more widely, yet are still relatively unexplored in terms of gender. Between them the sessions will consider the ways in which ideologies of masculinity were used by authors writing in both Christian and Islamic traditions, alongside those of social status, religion, and ethnicity, to represent and assess men, and sometimes women. Ideals of manliness were a crucial means of establishing normative values and behaviours, and thus also served to identify certain groups and individuals as 'other' to these.