Masculinity in Medieval Europe

ISBN-13: 9780582316454 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 296 str.

Hadley, Dawn

Opis

This collection of essays is designed to reveal the realities of men's lives in the Middle Ages. The essays cover a wide geographical range and span the entire medieval period, from the 4th to the 15th century. The book is divided into four main sections.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Dawn Hadley