Masculinity in Medieval Europe

by Hadley; Dawn

• ISBN13: 9780582316454
• ISBN10: 0582316456
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-11-30
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL SCHOOL GROUP

Summary

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 - including essays on Italy, France, Germany and Byzantium - and will span the entire medieval period, from the fourth to the fifteenth century. The collection is divided into four main sections: attaining masculinity; lay men and churchmen: sources of tension; sexuality and the construction of masculinity; and written relationships and social reality. The contributors are: Dawn Hadley, Jenny Moore, William M. Aird, Jeremy Goldberg, Matthew Bennet, Janet Nelson, Conrad Leyser, Robert Swanson, Patricia Cullum, Ross Balzaretti, Shaun Tougher, Julian Haseldine, Marianne Ailes and Mark Chinca.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction: Medieval Masculinities	1	(18)
D.M. Hadley
PART ONE: Attaining Masculinity	19	(82)
`Death Makes the Man'? Burial Rite and the Construction of Masculinities in the Early Middle Ages	21	(18)
D.M. Hadley
J.M. Moore
Frustrated Masculinity: the Relationship between William the Conqueror and his Eldest Son	39	(17)
W.M. Aird
Masters and Men in Later Medieval England	56	(15)
P.J.P. Goldberg
Military Masculinity in England and Northern France c.1050--c.1225	71	(18)
M. Bennett
Images of Effeminate Men: the Case of Byzantine Eunuchs	89	(12)
S. Tougher
PART TWO: Lay Men and Church Men: Sources of Tension?	101	(96)
Masculinity in Flux: Nocturnal Emission and the Limits of Celibacy in the Early Middle Ages	103	(18)
C. Leyser
Monks, Secular Men and Masculinity, c.900	121	(22)
J.L. Nelson
Men and Sex in Tenth-century Italy	143	(17)
R. Balzaretti
Angels Incarnate: Clergy and Masculinity from Gregorian Reform to Reformation	160	(18)
R.N. Swanson
Clergy, Masculinity and Transgression in Late Medieval England	178	(19)
P.H. Cullum
PART THREE: Masculinity and the Written Word: Text and Context	197	(59)
Women and Hunting-birds are Easy to Tame: Aristocratic Masculinity and the Early German Love-Lyric	199	(15)
M. Chinca
The Medieval Male Couple and the Language of Homosociality	214	(24)
M.J. Ailes
Love, Separation and Male Friendship: Words and Actions in Saint Anselm's Letters to his Friends	238	(18)
J.P. Haseldine
Bibliographical Essay	256	(17)
Index	273