Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities - Men in the Medieval West

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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

About the author

Jacqueline Murray

Summary

Conflicted Identities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jacqueline Murray (Editor), Murray Jacqueline (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780815330301
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3030-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 520 g
• Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men