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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784384003321

Titolo

Medieval masculinities [[electronic resource] ] : regarding men in the Middle Ages / / Clare A. Lees, editor, with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8583-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 193 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

LeesClare A

FensterThelma S

McNamaraJo Ann <1931-2009.>

Disciplina

305.3

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Men in literature

Feminist criticism

Men's studies

Masculinity - History

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Why Men?; Introduction; Part I. Constructing Masculinities; 1. The Herrenfrage: The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050-1150; 2. On Being a Male in the Middle Ages; 3. The (Dis)Embodied Hero and the Signs of Manhood in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Part II. Men in Institutions; 4. Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy; 5. Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors in Renaissance Venice; 6. Friars, Sanctity, and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325; 7. The Male Animal in the Fables of Marie de France

Part III. Epic and Empire8. Men and Beowulf; 9. Men in the Roman d'Eneas: The Construction of Empire; 10. Representing ""Other"" Men: Muslims, Jews, and Masculine Ideals in Medieval Castilian Epic and Ballad; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays examines the ideals and archetypes of men in Medieval times and how these concepts have affected the definition of



masculinity and its place in history.