Men in history - Topics

Why Guan Yu became a god worshipped in Chinese temples What African men's history looks like when you stop reading it through Europe Polar explorers and the Victorian cult of endurance Why century categories get thin the further back you go How a subject index handles men known for exactly one thing Alexander the Great's mentors and how they shaped his ambition How Victorian gentlemen defined respectability Sacred kings and the ritual duties of divine rulers What changes in men's lives between the 18th and 19th century? Why men by country is really an index of who got written down Why so few men from the 13th century are documented by name How samurai manhood changed during the Tokugawa peace Fathers in the nineteenth century: providers or participants? Chinese scholar-officials and the ideal of the gentleman What sources let historians reconstruct masculinity in the Middle Ages? African kings who resisted European colonization How Roman emperors were declared gods after death Using court records to study male violence in early modern towns The pharaoh as a living god in ancient Egypt What waited for soldiers coming home from the First World War What daily life was like for a Roman legionary The training of a medieval knight from page to dubbing Does turning a man into a god erase the real person? Forgotten engineers and inventors of the industrial age Missionary men and the hardships of nineteenth-century overseas postings Renaissance patrons who paid for the art we still study