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Premodern Masculinities in Transition
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2024
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Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change.
Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting, conflicting, and mutating identities that nevertheless were distinct and recognizable to people and their societies. The articles collected here examine a variety of means by which masculinity was constructed, deconstructed, and transformed across time, geographies, and cultures. Articles range across the twelfth to seventeenth century, from western Europe to the Volga-Ural region, from the Christian west to the Muslim east, from Ottomans to Mongols and Persians, from Baudri of Bourgueil to Blaise de Monluc; while topics include the chivalric hero, the effeminate man, beards, and spurs, represented variously in literature, historical documents, and art. Finally, in that period of great transformation that is the sixteenth century, they show how masculinity moved away from the traditional and recognizable to become something different and distinct from its premodern expressions.
Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting, conflicting, and mutating identities that nevertheless were distinct and recognizable to people and their societies. The articles collected here examine a variety of means by which masculinity was constructed, deconstructed, and transformed across time, geographies, and cultures. Articles range across the twelfth to seventeenth century, from western Europe to the Volga-Ural region, from the Christian west to the Muslim east, from Ottomans to Mongols and Persians, from Baudri of Bourgueil to Blaise de Monluc; while topics include the chivalric hero, the effeminate man, beards, and spurs, represented variously in literature, historical documents, and art. Finally, in that period of great transformation that is the sixteenth century, they show how masculinity moved away from the traditional and recognizable to become something different and distinct from its premodern expressions.
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Contributor: Konrad Eisenbichler
KONRAD EISENBICHLER is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
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Contributor: Jacqueline Murray
JACQUELINE MURRAY is University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Guelph.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Notes on Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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INTRODUCTION
1 - SHIFTING MASCULINITIES
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1 Work, Writing, and Elite Masculinity in the Lyrics of Baudri of Bourgueil
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2 Masculinity as Competence
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3 The Many Faces of Qahramān: A Medieval Persianate Romance as a Window on Mongol and Muslim Masculinities in the Volga-Ural Region (1400s–1700s)
53 - FLUID MASCULINITIES
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4 Marked Differences: Beards in Renaissance Europe
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5 Spurs and Negotiations of Masculinity in Early Modern England
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6 Mars Asleep: Discarded Swords in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
125 - TRANSFORMING MASCULINITIES
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7 Military Masculinities in La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
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8 From the Knightly Bayard to Captain Monluc: Representations of Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century French Military Literature
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9 The Effeminate Man and the Rhetoric of Anxious Masculinity: Anton Francesco Doni and Scipione Ammirato
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INDEX
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June 19, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781805432548
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Boydell Press
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Keywords for this book
premodern era; masculinity; gender studies; cultural history; Europe; Islamic world; premodern era; masculinity; gender studies; cultural history; Europe; Islamic world
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
