Anneke van Baalen, HIDDEN MASCULINITY, Max Weber's historical sociology of bureaucracy 
Amsterdam 1994. CONTENTS 
5. From 'masculine-dominated household' to 'patriarchy' - 63 
 
Ch. 4. Relations between men: from routinization of charisma to patriarchal 
domination over men - 66 
 
1. Introduction. Weber's reverse representation of the origins of legal patriarchy - 66 
2. 'Charisma' as a personal characteristic - 67 
3. The appropriation and production of charisma - 70 
4. Routinization and monopolization of charisma. Charismatic education. Transformation of 
charisma into group membership - 71 
5. Proofs of manhood and the reversal of the burden of proof; monopolization of masculinity 
by warrior fraternities  - 72 
6. The men's house - 75 
7. From the men's house to legal patriarchy: from warrior fraternity by plutocratization of 
charisma to status group and caste - 78 
8. Positive and negative status honor; masculine and feminine values - 82 
9. Caste and ethnic segregation - 84 
10. Property of land and people: military caste and patriarchal 'familia' - 85 
11. The 'oikos' as an economic conceptualization of the formal patriarchal household - 87 
 
Ch. 5. Expansion of patriarchy by decentralization and affiliation. Political 
patrimonialism as masculine domination by an hierarchy of unfree men - 89 
 
1. Decentralization of the patriarchal household: patrimonial domination - 89 
2. Political domination: the patrimonial state and the affiliation of free men - 90 
3. The patrimonial officials and their ambiguous position - 94 
4. Estate patrimonialism: administration by free men - 96 
 
Ch. 6. Feudalism. Decentralization of patrimonialism into political domination by an 
hierarchy of free men - 99 
 
1. Feudalism between patrimonial hierarchy and charismatic fraternization - 99 
2. The breach with kinship by charismatic robber bands and other 
military fraternizations - 100 
3. Feudalism as affiliation of free men with patrimonial power; fusion of contradictory 
patriarchal and charismatic aspects - 102 
4. Feudal mentality and education - 103 
5. Feudalism and the decentralization of patrimonial power - 104 
6. England: centralized feudalism and rule by honoratiores; justices of the peace and 
gentlemen - 105 
7. Weber's contrast between feudal Great Britain and patrimonial Germany - 109 
 
Ch 7. The city: new fraternities of patriarchs - 111 
 
1. Winckelmann on the city as a form of non-legitimate domination; non-legitimate 
domination as a breach with  'tradition' - 111 
2. Revolutionary charisma and democratic dictatorship - 113  
3. The market as an impersonal association - 114 
4. Market centers in general versus the occidental autonomous 'communes' and 'burgher-
estates' - 116 
5. The medieval western city as a breach with kinship tradition and the creation of new 
associations of real men -117