Dawn Hadley

Masculinity in Medieval Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An original and highly accessible collection of essays which is based on a huge range of historical sources to reveal the realities of mens' lives in the Middle Ages. It covers an impressive geographical range xxx; including essays on Italy, France, Germany and Byzantium xxx; and spans the entire medieval period, from the fourth to the fifteenth century. Contributors: Dawn Hadley, Jenny Moore, William M. Aird, Jeremy Goldberg, Matthew Bennett , Janet Nelson, Conrad Leyser, Robert Swanson, Patricia Cullum, Ross Balzaretti, Shaun Tougher, Julian Haseldine, Marianne Ailes and Mark Chinca.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780582316454
• ISBN-10: 0582316456
• Artikelnr.: 24327501

Autorenporträt

Dawn Hadley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Medieval Masculinities? PART ONE: ATTAINING MASCULINITY.
2. `Death maketh the man': The construction of masculinity in the early
Middle Ages. 3. Frustrated masculinity: The relationship between William
the Conqueror and his eldest son. 4. Masters and men in later medieval
England. 5. The masculine military ethos c. 1050-1250. PART TWO: LAY MEN
AND CHURCH MEN: SOURCES OF TENSION. 6. Monks, secular men and masculinity
c. 900. 7. `Monks in flux': nocturnal emission and the limits of clerical
celibacy in the early Middle Ages. 8. `Angels incarnate': clergy and
masculinity from Gregorian Reform to Reformation. 9. Clergy, masculinity
and transgression in late medieval England. PART THREE: SEXUALITY AND THE
CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY. 10. Men and sex in tenth-century Italy. 11.
Images of effeminate men: the case of Byzantine eunuchs. PART FOUR; WRITTEN
RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL REALITY. 12. Love, separation and male friendship:
words and actions in Saint Anselm's letters to his friends. 13. `The love
of a friend lasts forever': the language of male affection in Old French
literature - homosocial or homosexual? 14. `Women and hunting-birds are
easy to tame': aristocratic masculinity and the early German love-lyric.