Medieval Masculinities

by Lees, Clare A.; Fenster, Thelma S.; McNamara, Jo Ann

• ISBN13: 9780816624263
• ISBN10: 0816624267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface: Why Men?
Introduction
The Herrenfrage: The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050-1150	p. 3
On Being a Male in the Middle Ages	p. 31
The (Dis)Embodied Hero and the Signs of Manhood in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	p. 47
Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy	p. 61
Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors in Renaissance Venice	p. 73
Friars, Sanctity and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325	p. 91
The Male Animal in the Fables of Marie de France	p. 111
Men and Beowulf	p. 129
Men in the Roman d'Eneas: The Construction of Empire	p. 149
Representing "Other" Men: Muslims, Jews, and Masculine Ideals in Medieval Castilian Epic and Ballad	p. 169
Contributors	p. 187
Index	p. 189
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