Masculinities and femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
By: edited by Frederick Kiefer
Contributors: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Series: Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- v. 23; Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- v. 23.
Publisher: Brepols; Brepols Publishers; Brepols (distributed)
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Turnhout, Belgium]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9782503529974
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; Social role in literature; Weiblichkeit; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Medieval Literature; European literature; Sex role; Femininity in literature; Männlichkeit; Arts and society; History
Notes: "Collection had its origins at the combined meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Tempe, Arizona"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Frederick Kiefer; title: Make me chaste and continent, but not yet : a model for clerical masculinity? / Tracy Adams; title: Shoulder companions and shoulders in Beowulf / Victor I. Scherb; title: Women win the day : the female heroine in late-Medieval German Mæren / Albrecht Classen; title: Lion hearts, Saracen heads, dog tails : the body of the conqueror in Richard coer de lyon / Lynn Shutters; title: Chrétien's romances of grief : widows and their erotic bodies in Yvain / Megan Moore; title: Trewe men : pastoral masculinity in Lollard polemic / Elizabeth Schirmer; title: The faces of Ginevra de' Benci : homosocial agendas and female subjectivity in later Quattrocento Florence / Judith Bryce; title: To see and be seen : Aemilia Lanyer's poetics of vision / Ryan Singh Paul; title: Sleeping with the menagerie : sex and the Renaissance pet / Paul N. Hartle.