Masculinities and femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Frederick Kiefer.

Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

[Turnhout, Belgium] : Brepols, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes

"Collection had its origins at the combined meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Tempe, Arizona"--Introd.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Frederick Kiefer -- Make me chaste and continent, but not yet : a model for clerical masculinity? / Tracy Adams -- Shoulder companions and shoulders in Beowulf / Victor I. Scherb -- Women win the day : the female heroine in late-Medieval German Mæren / Albrecht Classen -- Lion hearts, Saracen heads, dog tails : the body of the conqueror in Richard coer de lyon / Lynn Shutters -- Chrétien's romances of grief : widows and their erotic bodies in Yvain / Megan Moore -- Trewe men : pastoral masculinity in Lollard polemic / Elizabeth Schirmer -- The faces of Ginevra de' Benci : homosocial agendas and female subjectivity in later Quattrocento Florence / Judith Bryce -- To see and be seen : Aemilia Lanyer's poetics of vision / Ryan Singh Paul -- Sleeping with the menagerie : sex and the Renaissance pet / Paul N. Hartle.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9782503529974
  • 2503529976