Crusading and masculinities / edited by Natasha R. Hodgson, Katherine J. Lewis and Matthew M. Mesley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / by Natasha R. Hodgson, Katherine J. Lewis and Matthew M. Mesley -- Propaganda and masculinity : gendering the crusades in thirteenth-century sermons / Christoph T. Maier -- The valiant man and the villain in the tradition of the Gesta Francorum : overeating, taunts and Bohemond's heroic status / Simon Thomas Parsons -- �Al-Af�dal b. Badr al-Jamal�i, the Vizierate and the Fatiid response to the first crusade : masculinity in historical memory / Mathew Barber -- The adolescent and the crusader : journey and rebirth on the path to manhood in the thirteenth century / Anne-Lydie Dubois-Collet -- Masculine attributes of the other : the shared knightly model / Yvonne Friedman -- "The true gentleman" : correct behavior towards women according to Christian and Muslim writers during the period of the crusades / Helen J. Nicholson -- Contrasting masculinities in the crusades against Lithuania : Teutonic knights and crusades in war and recreation in late medieval Prussia / Alan V. Murray -- "Sat at home like your father's daughter" : gendered insults and crusading masculinities in medieval sagas / James Doherty -- Crusader masculinities in health crises, 1095-1274 / Joanna Phillips -- Masculating the enemy : Wicher the Swabian's fight with the Saracen giant / Susan B. Edgington -- Fighting women in the crusading period through Muslim eyes : transgressing expectations and facing realities / Niall Christie -- Leading the people "as duke, count and father" : the masculinities of Abbot Martin of Paris in Gunther of Paris' Hystoria Constantinopolitana / Natasha R. Hodgson -- "Unus contra omnes" : representing martyrdom and masculinities in The itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta Regis Ricardi / Beth Spacey -- "Mediterranean masculinities" reflections of Muslim and Christian manliness in medieval Iberian crusade and jihad narratives / Linda Jones -- A Jewish solution to the problem of excessive Christian virility in the war against Spanish Islam / Erika Tritle -- Performing Plantagenet kingship : crusading and masculinity in Matthew Paris's Chronica majora / Matthew M. Mesley -- Kingship on crusade in the scriptorium of Alfonso XI of Castile / David Cantor-Echols -- "...doo as this noble Prynce Godeffroy of Boloyne Dyde" : chivalry, masculinity and crusading in late medieval England / Katherine J. Lewis -- "Adfin qu'on ne murmurast contre luy" : chivalry and masculinity in a Burgundian crusade chronicle (ca. 1446) / Robert B. Desjardins.

"The purpose of the volume is to further the work of existing studies which have established the importance of gender as a tool of analysis for understanding the Crusades. The book contains essays by established scholars and early career researchers and takes a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to a range of primary source materials"-- Provided by publisher.