From Chivalry To Terrorism

War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity

By: Leo Braudy

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Paperback | 1 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship between the changing methods and goals of warfare and shifting models of manhood. This journey takes us from the citizen soldiers of ancient Greece to the medieval knights to the misogynistic terrorists of Al Qaeda.

As he chronicles these transformations, Leo Braudy weighs the significance of everything from weapon technology to the hairstyles favored during different eras. He offers fresh insights on codes of war and codes of racial purity, and on cultural and historical figures from Socrates to Don Quixote to Napoleon to Custer to Rambo. Epic in scope and free of academic jargon, From Chivalry to Terrorism is a masterwork of scholarship that is both accessible and breathtakingly ambitious.

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"History in the grand manner, pulled off with brilliance, wonderful imagination and considerable erudition. . . . Fascinating." -- The Washington Post Book World

"History at its most powerful. It is impossible to do justice to the range of fascinating material in this book." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The reader is left marveling. . . . An expansive, ambitious project." -San Francisco Chronicle

"A terrific topic . . . The book displays Braudy's loving immersion in his subject, fine grasp of historical complexity, and aversion for glib or dogmatic judgments." -The New York Times Book Review

"A vivid, hugely ambitious book . . . Likely to be widely read." -The New York Review of Books

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Men and Boys Warfare & Defence

Introduction: Arms and Men	p. xi
Men and Masculinity
Remember My Name	p. 3
The Language of the Body	p. 9
Initiation: The First Wound	p. 17
Warriors and Women	p. 21
Armor and Honor
The Purity of War	p. 29
The Warrior as Barbarian	p. 35
The Shape of Fury	p. 42
The Shield of Honor	p. 49
The Spectacle of Knighthood	p. 56
The Birth of Genealogy: Where Did Knights Come From?	p. 63
Knighthood, Christianity, and Chivalry: The Uneasy Truce	p. 71
Chivalry in Theory and Practice	p. 81
The Solitude of the Wandering Knight	p. 91
The Inspiration to Battle and the Lure of Love	p. 103
From Armor to Personality
Uniforms and the Eclipse of Armor	p. 117
National Identity and the Cause of Religion	p. 124
Money, Nationalism, and the "Military Revolution"	p. 132
Don Quixote and the Fiction of Male Individuality	p. 143
Tests of the Body: Trial by Combat, Single Combat, and the Duel	p. 150
Pirates and Highwaymen	p. 158
The Rites of "Man"	p. 162
The Battle and the Sexes
War and Pornography	p. 175
Performance Anxiety	p. 185
The Opposite Sex	p. 199
Heroes from Below
War and Antiwar	p. 217
The Field of Battle: Monarch's Eye	p. 224
The Field of Battle: Soldier's Eye	p. 233
The Uniformed Nation	p. 240
Citizens into Soldiers, Soldiers into Citizens	p. 246
Volleys or Aiming, Regular Army or Militia?	p. 256
The Nineteenth Century: War and National Identity
Technological Progress and the Lost Cause	p. 265
Barbaric Energy and Civilized Manners	p. 291
The Boy General	p. 302
The Statistics of Human Nature: Norms and the Abnormal	p. 310
The Specter of Degeneracy	p. 317
Masculine, Feminine, Effeminate: Sex Among the Civilized	p. 327
Sports and the Manly Ideal	p. 338
The Crucible of the 1890s	p. 349
Be Prepared	p. 363
The Twentieth Century: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Warrior Spirit
Honor in No-Man's-Land	p. 373
Death at a Distance	p. 383
Reason in Madness	p. 390
Primitive Body and Machine Body	p. 395
T.E. Lawrence: The Resurrection of Adventure	p. 404
Front Line at Home: Pacifism and Paramilitary Violence	p. 415
The Thirty-one Years' War: The Supreme Leader and the Solitary Champion	p. 435
The Threat of Impurity: Racism and Misogyny	p. 443
Targeting Civilians	p. 457
No Retreat and Unconditional Surrender	p. 466
Shadows on the Wall and the Common Man	p. 475
Brainwashing and the War Within	p. 483
The Solitude of the Westerner	p. 494
Postwar Male Sexuality and the Kinsey Reports	p. 501
No Body's Perfect	p. 512
War Without a Front: Vietnam and the End of the Cold War	p. 519
Make Love, Not War: Theories of Innate Aggression and the Antiwar Movement	p. 531
Parting Words: Terrorism as a Gender War	p. 542
Bibliography: Notes and Sources	p. 557
Acknowledgments	p. 591
Index	p. 593
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