The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- Beyond Narcissism? Ywain and Gawain
- Conclusion
- What Has This Historian Done with Masculinity?
- Chronology
- The Other Half
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.