Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West

ISBN-13: 9781138799028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str.

Jacqueline Murray;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches, aim to extend understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Jacqueline Murray