The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

1. Introduction: Masculinity and Politik; Christopher Fletcher.- 2. Power, Authority and Phallic Representations in Ancient Roman Society; Cyril Dumas.- 3. Between Bishops and Barbarians: The Rulers of the Later Roman Empire; Mathew Kuefler.- 4. The Rise and Fall of the High Chamberlain Eutropius: Eunuch Identity, the Third Sex and Power in fourth-century Byzantium; Georges Sideris.- 5. Virile Women and Effeminate Men: Gendered Judgements and the Exercise of Power in Ottonian Empire c. 1000 CE; Laurence Leleu.- 6. Creating Kin, Extending Authority: Blood-Brotherhood and Power in Medieval Iceland; Pragya Vohra.- 7. Beyond Celibacy: Bishops, Power and Masculinity in Medieval Germany; Matthew Mesley.- 8. Masculinity and Political Struggle in the Cities of Castile at the End of the Middle Ages; Hipolito Rafael Oliva Herrer.- 9. 'By This My Beard Which Hangs From My Face': The Masculinity of the French Princes in the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War; Hugo Dufour.- 10. Monarchy and Masculinity in Early Modern England; Susan Doran.- 11. Manhood and the English Revolution; Ann Hughes.- 12. A Man's Sphere? British Politics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Matthew McCormack.- 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; Henry French.- 14. Antonio Canova's Statue of King Ferdinand IV and the Gendering of Neapolitan Sovereignty; Allison Goudie.- 15. Psychological Androgyny, Romanticism and the Radical Challenge to Masculinity in England, 1790-1840; Victoria Russell.- 16. The Dominant and the Dominated: Power Relations and Intimate Authority in the Personal Diary of the Jurist Eugene Wilhelm (1885-1951); Regis Schlagdenhauffen.- 17. Eminently Queer Victorians and the Bloomsbury Group's Critique of British Leadership; Dominic Janes.- 18. Masculinity, Political Culture and the Rise of Nazism; Christopher Dillon.- 19. Masculinities and Parliamentary Culture in Modern Britain; Ben Griffin.- 20. From Mussolini to Berlusconi: Masculinity and Political Leadership in Postwar Italy; Stephen Gundle.- Index