The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe

Description

This handbook aims to challenge ‘gender blindness’ in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power. Until very recently in historical terms, formal political authority in Europe was normally and ideally held by adult males, with female power being perceived as a recurrent aberration. Yet paradoxically the study of the interactions between masculinity and political culture is still very much in its infancy. This volume seeks to remedy this lacuna by considering the different consequences of the masculinity of power over two millennia of European history. It examines how masculinity and political culture have interacted from ancient Rome and the early medieval Byzantine empire, to twentieth-century Germany and Italy. It considers a broad variety of case studies from early medieval Iceland and late medieval France, to Naples at the time of the French Revolution and Strasbourg after the Franco-Prussian War, with a particular focus on the development of political masculinities in Great Britain between the sixteenth century and the present day. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Masculinity and Politik (Christopher Fletcher)....Pages 1-16 Power, Authority and Phallic Representations in Ancient Roman Society (Cyril Dumas)....Pages 17-35 Between Bishops and Barbarians: The Rulers of the Later Roman Empire (Mathew Kuefler)....Pages 37-62 The Rise and Fall of the High Chamberlain Eutropius: Eunuch Identity, the Third Sex and Power in Fourth-Century Byzantium (Georges Sidéris)....Pages 63-84 Virile Women and Effeminate Men: Gendered Judgements and the Exercise of Power in the Ottonian Empire c. 1000 ce (Laurence Leleu)....Pages 85-104 Creating Kin, Extending Authority: Blood-Brotherhood and Power in Medieval Iceland (Pragya Vohra)....Pages 105-131 Beyond Celibacy: Medieval Bishops, Power and Masculinity in the Middle Ages (Matthew M. Mesley)....Pages 133-160 Masculinity and Political Struggle in the Cities of the Crown of Castile at the End of the Middle Ages (Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer)....Pages 161-178 ‘By this My Beard Which Hangs From My Face’: The Masculinity of the French Princes in the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (Hugo Dufour)....Pages 179-199 Monarchy and Masculinity in Early Modern England (Susan Doran)....Pages 201-223 Manhood and the English Revolution (Ann Hughes)....Pages 225-246 A Man’s Sphere? British Politics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Matthew McCormack)....Pages 247-264 ‘I Tremble Lest My Powers of Thought are not What They Ought to be’: Reputation and the Masculine Anxieties of an Eighteenth-Century Statesman (Henry French)....Pages 265-283 Antonio Canova’s Statue of King Ferdinand IV and the Gendering of Neapolitan Sovereignty (Allison Goudie)....Pages 285-310 Psychological Androgyny, Romanticism and the Radical Challenge to Hegemonic Masculinity in England, 1790–1840 (Victoria Russell)....Pages 311-333 The Dominant and the Dominated. Power Relations and Intimate Authorities in the Personal Diary of the Jurist Eugène Wilhelm (1885–1951) (Régis Schlagdenhauffen)....Pages 335-357 Eminently Queer Victorians and the Bloomsbury Group’s Critique of British Leadership (Dominic Janes)....Pages 359-378 Masculinity, Political Culture, and the Rise of Nazism (Christopher Dillon)....Pages 379-402 Masculinities and Parliamentary Culture in Modern Britain (Ben Griffin)....Pages 403-433 From Mussolini to Berlusconi: Masculinity and Political Leadership in Post-war Italy (Stephen Gundle)....Pages 435-455 Back Matter ....Pages 457-465