Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
Boydell & Brewer
Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Masculinities in Old Norse Literature
-
Edited by:
-
With contributions by:
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
First full investigation of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, kings' sagas, legendary sagas, chivalric sagas, bishops' sagas, and eddic and skaldic verse, producing a broad and multifaceted understanding of what it means to be masculine in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. A critical introduction places the essays in their scholarly context, providing the reader with a concise orientation in gender studies and the study of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
This book's investigation of how masculinities are constructed and challenged within a unique literature is all the more vital in the current climate, in which Old Norse sources are weaponised to support far-right agendas and racist ideologies are intertwined with images of vikings as hypermasculine. This volume counters these troubling narratives of masculinity through explorations of Old Norse literature that demonstrate how masculinity is formed, how it is linked to violence and vulnerability, how it governs men's relationships, and how toxic models of masculinity may be challenged.
JESSICA HANCOCK is a Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London; GARETH LLOYD EVANS is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Contributors: Ásdís Egilsdóttir, David Ashurst, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Gareth Lloyd Evans, Oren Falk, Alison Finlay, Jessica Clare Hancock, Jóhanna Katrín Fridriksdóttir, Philip Lavender, Thomas Morcom, Carl Phelpstead, Matthew Roby.
Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, kings' sagas, legendary sagas, chivalric sagas, bishops' sagas, and eddic and skaldic verse, producing a broad and multifaceted understanding of what it means to be masculine in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. A critical introduction places the essays in their scholarly context, providing the reader with a concise orientation in gender studies and the study of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
This book's investigation of how masculinities are constructed and challenged within a unique literature is all the more vital in the current climate, in which Old Norse sources are weaponised to support far-right agendas and racist ideologies are intertwined with images of vikings as hypermasculine. This volume counters these troubling narratives of masculinity through explorations of Old Norse literature that demonstrate how masculinity is formed, how it is linked to violence and vulnerability, how it governs men's relationships, and how toxic models of masculinity may be challenged.
JESSICA HANCOCK is a Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London; GARETH LLOYD EVANS is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Contributors: Ásdís Egilsdóttir, David Ashurst, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Gareth Lloyd Evans, Oren Falk, Alison Finlay, Jessica Clare Hancock, Jóhanna Katrín Fridriksdóttir, Philip Lavender, Thomas Morcom, Carl Phelpstead, Matthew Roby.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Gareth Lloyd Evans
GARETH LLOYD EVANS is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
---
Contributor: Jessica Clare Hancock
JESSICA HANCOCK is a Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London.
---
Contributor: Gareth Lloyd Evans
GARETH LLOYD EVANS is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
---
Contributor: Jessica Clare Hancock
JESSICA HANCOCK is a Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contributors
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Acknowledgements
ix -
Download PDFPublicly Available
List of abbreviations
xi -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction
1 - I Becoming masculine
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Boyhood, Saga-Style: From Mannsefni to Maðr
21 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Licit Love Visit: Masculine Sexual Maturation and the ‘Temporary Troll Lover’ Trope
37 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Female Masculinity and the Sagas of Icelanders
59 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
‘With mirthful merriment’: Masquerade and Masculinity in Mágus saga jarls
77 - II Masculinity, power, and vulnerability
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Vulnerable Masculinities and the Vicissitudes of Power in Göngu-Hrólfs saga
97 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Masculinity, Christianity, and (Non)Violence
113 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Inclusive Masculinity in Morkinskinna and the Defusal of Kingly Aggression
127 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Emotions of a Vulnerable Viking: Negotiations of Masculinity in Egils saga
147 - III Men’s relationships
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
ʻÞat þótti illr fundr’: Phallic Aggression in Bjarnar saga Hítdoelakappa
167 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Male Bedpartners and the ‘Intimacies of a Wife’: rekkjufélagar and vífs rúnar
183 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Companions, Conflicts, and Concubines: Clerical Masculinities in Lárentíus saga biskups
203 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
‘That which a hand gives a hand or a foot gives a foot’: Male Kinship Obligations in the Heroic Poetic Edda and Völsunga saga
217 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Afterword: The Ethics and Urgency of Studying Old Norse Masculinities
237 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Bibliography
241 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
263
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 28, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781787448193
Original publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781787448193
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
