Title: Masculinity in medieval Europe /
Authors: Hadley, D. M. 1967-
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Men Europe History.; Masculinity Europe History.; Civilization, Medieval
Abstract: "This important book launches the medieval tier of Longman's new gender history series, Women and Men in History. The volume, which is aimed at students, scholars and general readers alike, examines masculinity across medieval Europe (including the Byzantine Empire, Italy, France, Germany, and England) between the fourth and sixteenth centuries. Scholarly, and yet always accessible, the book is a much-needed contribution to the study of gender in the Middle Ages." "The aim of the book is to problematise medieval masculimity showing how it was far from being a fixed identity against which female status and identity can be constructed."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 'Death makes the man'? burial rite and the construction of masculinities in the early Middle Ages / D.M. Hadley and J.M. Moore -- Frustrated masculinity: the relationship between William the Conqueror and his eldest son / W.M. Aird -- Masters and men in later medieval England / P.J.P Goldberg -- Military masculinity in England and northern France c.1050-c.1225 / M. Bennett -- Images of effeminate men: the case of Byzantine Eunuchs / S. Tougher -- Masculinity in flux: nocturnal emission and the limits of celibacy in the early middle ages / C. Leyser -- Monks, secular men and masculinity, c.900 / J.L. Nelson -- Men and sex in tenth-century Italy / R. Balzaretti -- Angels incarnate: clergy and masculinity from Gregorian reform to reformation / R.N. Swanson -- Clergy, masculinity and transgression in late medieval England / P.H. Cullum -- Women and hunting-birds are easy to tame: aristocratic masculinity and the early German love-lyric / M. Chinca -- The medieval male couple and the language of homosociality / M.J. Ailes -- Love, separation and male friendship: words and actions in Saint Anselm's letters to his friends / J.P Haseldine