What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
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The Role of Bed Sharing in the History of Kingship
Richard and Philip eat at the same table from the same dish every day. At night they have not separate chambers, this implication that they share the bed together. This is an example of particularly close affection within the context of male friendship. It's not immediately sexual, and if you look at bed sharing throughout the medieval period, there are definitely instances where there is a sexual connotation to it but this isn't one of them in my opinion.
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