1st Edition
Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities Men in the Medieval West
Edited By Jacqueline Murray
Copyright 1999
300 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas,... Read more
Introduction * An Unresolved Syllogism. The Search of a Christian Gender System, Jo Ann McNamara * Secular and Spiritual Fatherhood in the Eleventh Century, Megan McLaughlin * Jean Gerson and Traumas of Masculinity Affectivity and Sexuality, Brian Patrick McGuire * Mystical Castration: Some Reflections on Peter Abelard, Hugh of Lincoln and Sexual Control, Jacqueline Murray * Medieval Masculinities and Modern Interpretations. The Problem of the Pardoner, Vern L. Bullough * Triangularity in the Pagan North. The Case of Bjrn Arngeirsson and W-rvr Kolbeinsson, Jenny Jochens * Steel Corpse: Imaging the Knight in Death, Rachel Dressler * Chivalric Conversation and The Denial of Male Fear, Andrew Taylor * Separating the Men from the Goast. Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University, Ruth Mazo Karras * Gravitas and Consumption, Susan Mosher Stuard * Men and Masculinity in Late Medieval London Civic Culture. Governance, Patriarchy and Reputation, Shannon McSheffrey * Loved Him-Hated Her: Honor and Shame at the Medieval Court, John Carmi Parsons
Biography
Jacqueline Murray
