Discussions of the relationship between gender and religion most often focus attention on female religious figures. In redressing this bias, this collection of fourteen essays, taken from a conference held at the University of Huddersfield in 2001, examines how medieval masculinity related to concepts of holiness. Contents include: Sexual prowess, the battle for chastity and monastic identity (J Murray) ; Masculine identity in mystic marriages (C D Muir) ; Masculinity and eunuch saints in Byzantium (S Tougher) ; Holiness and masculinity in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon martyr-kings (E Christie) ; Monarchy, martyrdom and masculinity: England in the later Middle Ages (W M Ormrod) .