Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • ʹAl-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamalī, 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.