Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138799028)

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

Author: Jacqueline Murray
ISBN-10: 1138799025
ISBN-13: 9781138799028
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2014
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d