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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451125403321

Autore

Fitzgerald Christina M

Titolo

The drama of masculinity and medieval English guild culture [[electronic resource] /] / Christina M. Fitzgerald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, Hampshire, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36333-2

9786611363338

0-230-60499-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

The new Middle Ages

Disciplina

307.76081/0942

Soggetti

Masculinity - England - History - To 1500

Guilds - England - History - To 1500

Drama, Medieval - History and criticism

Men - England - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

England Social life and customs 1066-1485

England Social conditions 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Men in the Household, Guild, and City; 2 The Domestic Scene: Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild; 3 Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life; 4 Acting Like a Man: The Solitary Christ and Masculinity; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.