ISBN:
9780226569598
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (318 pages)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Pugh, Tison [Rezension von: Neal, Derek G., The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England] 2010
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Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
DDC:
305.38/82100902
Keywords:
Masculinity History To 1500
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Men Social life and customs
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England ; Social conditions ; 1066-1485
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England ; Social life and customs ; 1066-1485
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Masculinity ; England ; History ; To 1500
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Men ; England ; Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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England Social conditions 1066-1485
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England Social life and customs 1066-1485
Abstract:
What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated. Marshalling a wide array of colorful evidence-including legal records, letters, medical sources, and the literature of the period-Derek G. Neal here plumbs the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. He discovers that social relations between men, founded on the ideals of honesty and self-restraint, were at least as important as their domination and control of women in defining their identities. By carefully exploring the social, physical, and psychological aspects of masculinity, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England offers a uniquely comprehensive account of the exterior and interior lives of medieval men.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Primary Sources -- Introduction -- 1 False Thieves and True Men -- Masculine Identity Formation in a Society of Stresses -- The Unknown Majority -- Manhood in the Towns -- Livelihood, Reputation, and Conflict -- False Thieves -- The Language of the Common Voice (and Fame) -- True Men -- Ideal and Reality -- The Legal Rhetoric of Masculinity -- 2 Husbands and Priests -- Husbandry (I): Pollers, Extorcioners, and Adulterers -- Substance -- Pollers and Extorcioners -- Polling, Cutting, and Loss of Substance -- Adulterers -- Husbandry (II): The Household from Inside -- Adulteresses -- Wives and Servants -- Priests versus Husbands, Priests as Husbands -- Clergy in English Society -- Conflict -- The Social Meaning of Celibacy -- The Rector and the Bailiff -- Clergymen and the Household -- Blaming the Friars -- Celibacy and Gender Identity: What Was the Real Problem? -- 3 Sex and Gender: the Meanings of the Male Body -- From Physiology to Personality -- Medieval Maleness: Form and Meaning -- Manliness and Attractiveness -- From Phallus to Penis (or Vice Versa?) -- Husbandly Sexuality -- An Incomplete Husband -- The Male Body in Action -- The Uses of Misrule -- Dress -- The Dangers of the Tongue -- 4 Toward the Private Self: Desire, Masculinity, and Middle English Romance -- History, Fiction, and Literature -- The Literary Subject -- The Romance of Masculinity -- All Her Fault -- The Dangers of Desire -- Narcissistic Masculinity and the Rape of Melior -- Mothers -- Lovers Invisible and Unspeakable -- Fathers Unknown and Forbidden -- The Father Unknown: Bevis of Hampton -- Better the Nightmare You Know: Lybeaus Desconus -- Father Forbidden, Father Created: Of Arthour and of Merlin -- Emplotted Desire: Sir Perceval of Galles -- Desire and Dread: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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