What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
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The Politics of Bedsharing
There's precedence for bedsharing as a political act before Henry II and William Marshall. We don't see any kind of rumors circulating around Henry and William the same way that Richard and Philip seem to have drawn attention. And therefore we've got evidence in the very near past of bedsharing being a political act, not a sexual one. It's part of a wider trend of seeing men showing their friendship, showing closeness to one another.
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