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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299805403321

Titolo

The Palgrave handbook of masculinity and political culture in Europe / / edited by Christopher Fletcher, Sean Brady, Rachel E. Moss, Lucy Riall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9781137585387

1137585382

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Handbooks

Disciplina

305.31

Soggetti

Social history

Europe - History

Civilization - History

World politics

Identity politics

Social History

European History

Cultural History

Political History

Politics and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.