Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages
Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages
by Clare A. Lees
University of Minnesota Press, 1994 Cloth: 978-0-8166-2425-6 | Paper: 978-0-8166-2426-3 Library of Congress Classification HQ1088.M45 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Why Men?
Fenster,
Thelma
Introduction
Lees,
Clare A.
Part I.
Constructing Masculinities
1.
The Herrenfrage: The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050-1150
McNamara,
Jo Ann
2.
On Being a Male in the Middle Ages
Bullough,
Vern L.
3.
The (Dis)Embodied Hero and the Signs of Manhood in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Kinney,
Clare R.
Part II.
Men in Institutions
4.
Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy
Stuard,
Susan Mosher
5.
Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors in Renaissance Venice
Chojnacki,
Stanley
6.
Friars, Sanctity, and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325
Coakley,
John
7.
The Male Animal in the Fables of Marie de France
Spiegel,
Harriet
Part III.
Epic and Empire
8.
Men and Beowulf
Lees,
Clare A.
9.
Men in the Roman d'Eneas: The Construction of Empire
Baswell,
Christopher
10.
Representing “Other” Men: Muslims, Jews, and Masculine Ideals in Medieval Castilian Epic and Ballad Louise Mirrer