| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 193 pages) |
| Series |
Medieval cultures ; v. 7 |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 7.
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| Contents |
Herrenfrage : the restructuring of the gender system, 1050-1150 / Jo Ann McNamara -- On being a male in the Middle Ages / Vern L. Bullough -- (Dis)embodied hero and signs of manhood in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" / Clare R. Kinney -- Burdens of matrimony : husbanding and gender in medieval Italy / Susan Mosher Stuard -- Subaltern patriarchs : patrician bachelors in Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki -- Friars, sanctity, and gender : mendicant encounters with saints, 1250-1325 / John Coakley -- Male animal in the fables of Marie de France / Harriet Spiegel -- Men and 'Beowulf' / Clare A. Lees -- Men in the 'Roman d'Eneas' : the construction of empire / Christopher Baswell -- Representing "other" men : Muslims, Jews, and masculine ideals in medieval Castilian epic and ballad / Louise Mirrer |
| Summary |
This collection of essays examines the ideals and archetypes of men in Medieval times and how these concepts have affected the definition of masculinity and its place in history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval.
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Men in literature.
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Feminist criticism.
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Men's studies.
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Masculinity -- History
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Feminist literary criticism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Feminist literary criticism
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Civilization, Medieval
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Feminist criticism
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Masculinity
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Men in literature
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Men's studies
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Mannen.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lees, Clare A., editor.
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Fenster, Thelma S., editor.
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McNamara, Jo Ann, 1931-2009, editor
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| ISBN |
9780816685837 |
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0816685835 |
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