Jacqueline Murray (ed.)

Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities

Men in the Medieval West
Herausgeber: Murray, Jacqueline

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Produktbeschreibung

"Conflicting Identities" takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the 15th 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, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches, aim to significantly extend one's understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 148mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780815330301
• ISBN-10: 0815330308
• Artikelnr.: 21335862

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Murray

Inhaltsangabe

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