{"product_id":"masculinity-in-medieval-europe-9780582316454","title":"Masculinity in Medieval Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn original and highly accessible collection of essays which is based on a huge range of historical sources to reveal the realities of mens' lives in the Middle Ages. It covers an impressive geographical range - including essays on Italy, France, Germany and Byzantium - and will span the entire medieval period, from the fourth to the fifteenth century. The collection is divided into four main sections: attaining masculinity; lay men and churchmen: sources of tension; sexuality and the construction of masculinity; and written relationships and social reality.The contributors are:Dawn Hadley, Jenny Moore, William M. Aird, Jeremy Goldberg, Matthew Bennet, Janet Nelson, Conrad Leyser, Robert Swanson, Patricia Cullum, Ross Balzaretti, Shaun Tougher, Julian Haseldine, Marianne Ailes and Mark Chinca.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. 1. Medieval Masculinities? \u003cstrong\u003ePART ONE: ATTAINING MASCULINITY. \u003c\/strong\u003e2. `Death maketh the man': The construction of masculinity in the early Middle Ages. 3. Frustrated masculinity: The relationship between William the Conqueror and his eldest son. 4. Masters and men in later medieval England. 5. The masculine military ethos c. 1050-1250. \u003cstrong\u003ePART TWO: LAY MEN AND CHURCH MEN: SOURCES OF TENSION. \u003c\/strong\u003e6. Monks, secular men and masculinity c. 900. 7. `Monks in flux': nocturnal emission and the limits of clerical celibacy in the early Middle Ages. 8. `Angels incarnate': clergy and masculinity from Gregorian Reform to Reformation. 9. Clergy, masculinity and transgression in late medieval England. \u003cstrong\u003ePART THREE: SEXUALITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY. \u003c\/strong\u003e10. Men and sex in tenth-century Italy. 11. Images of effeminate men: the case of Byzantine eunuchs. \u003cstrong\u003ePART FOUR; WRITTEN RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL REALITY. \u003c\/strong\u003e12. Love, separation and male friendship: words and actions in Saint Anselm's letters to his friends. 13. `The love of a friend lasts forever': the language of male affection in Old French literature - homosocial or homosexual? 14. `Women and hunting-birds are easy to tame': aristocratic masculinity and the early German love-lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018328539479,"sku":"9780582316454","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780582316454.jpg?v=1750776450","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/masculinity-in-medieval-europe-9780582316454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}