The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe

Chapter 2 Power, Authority and Phallic Representations in Ancient Roman Society

Chapter 3 Between Bishops and Barbarians: The Rulers of the Later Roman Empire

Chapter 4 The Rise and Fall of the High Chamberlain Eutropius: Eunuch Identity, the Third Sex and Power in Fourth-Century Byzantium

Chapter 5 Virile Women and Effeminate Men: Gendered Judgements and the Exercise of Power in the Ottonian Empire c. 1000 ce

Chapter 6 Creating Kin, Extending Authority: Blood-Brotherhood and Power in Medieval Iceland

Chapter 7 Beyond Celibacy: Medieval Bishops, Power and Masculinity in the Middle Ages

Chapter 8 Masculinity and Political Struggle in the Cities of the Crown of Castile at the End of the Middle Ages

Chapter 9 ‘By this My Beard Which Hangs From My Face’: The Masculinity of the French Princes in the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War

Chapter 10 Monarchy and Masculinity in Early Modern England

Chapter 11 Manhood and the English Revolution

Chapter 12 A Man’s Sphere? British Politics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 13 ‘I Tremble Lest My Powers of Thought are not What They Ought to be’: Reputation and the Masculine Anxieties of an Eighteenth-Century Statesman

Chapter 14 Antonio Canova’s Statue of King Ferdinand IV and the Gendering of Neapolitan Sovereignty

Chapter 15 Psychological Androgyny, Romanticism and the Radical Challenge to Hegemonic Masculinity in England, 1790–1840

Chapter 16 The Dominant and the Dominated. Power Relations and Intimate Authorities in the Personal Diary of the Jurist Eugène Wilhelm (1885–1951)

Chapter 17 Eminently Queer Victorians and the Bloomsbury Group’s Critique of British Leadership

Chapter 18 Masculinity, Political Culture, and the Rise of Nazism

Chapter 19 Masculinities and Parliamentary Culture in Modern Britain

Chapter 20 From Mussolini to Berlusconi: Masculinity and Political Leadership in Post-war Italy