| Description |
xxv, 193 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Medieval cultures ; v. 7 |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 7
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| Contents |
Preface: Why Men? / Thelma Fenster -- Introduction / Clare A. Lees -- 1. The Herrenfrage: The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050-1150 / Jo Ann McNamara -- 2. On Being a Male in the Middle Ages / Vern L. Bullough -- 3. The (Dis)Embodied Hero and the Signs of Manhood in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Clare R. Kinney -- 4. Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy / Susan Mosher Stuard -- 5. Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors in Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki -- 6. Friars, Sanctity and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325 / John Coakley -- 7. The Male Animal in the Fables of Marie de France / Harriet Spiegel -- 8. Men and Beowulf / Clare A. Lees -- 9. Men in the Roman d'Eneas: The Construction of Empire / Christopher Basewell -- 10. Representing "Other" Men: Muslims, Jews, and Masculine Ideals in Medieval Castilian Epic and Ballad / Louise Mirrer |
| Analysis |
Christian saints - Europe - History - To 1500 |
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Civilization, Medieval |
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Feminist criticism |
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Franciscans - Spiritual life - 13th century |
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Gender identity - Europe - History |
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Masculinity - History |
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Men - Psychology |
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Men in literature |
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Men's studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval.
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Feminist criticism.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Masculinity -- History.
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Masculinity.
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Men in literature.
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Men's studies.
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| Author |
Fenster, Thelma S.
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Lees, Clare A.
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McNamara, Jo Ann, 1931-
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| LC no. |
93037311 |
| ISBN |
0816624259 (hc : acid-free paper) |
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0816624267 (pb : acid-free paper) |
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