The masculine self in late medieval England / Derek G. Neal.

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Neal, Derek G

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226569598
0226569594
9780226569550
9780226569574
0226569551
0226569578
1282070088
9781282070080
9786612070082
6612070080

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Masculine self in late medieval England.DDC classification:

305.38/82100902 22

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HQ1090.7.E85 N43 2008eb

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HH 4054

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Contents:

False thieves and true men -- Husbands and priests -- Sex and gender : the meanings of the male body -- Toward the private self : desire, masculinity, and middle English romance.

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Summary: What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated. Marshalling a wide array of colorful evidence--including legal records, letters, medical sources, and the literature of the period--Derek G. Neal here plumbs the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between th.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.

False thieves and true men -- Husbands and priests -- Sex and gender : the meanings of the male body -- Toward the private self : desire, masculinity, and middle English romance.

What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated. Marshalling a wide array of colorful evidence--including legal records, letters, medical sources, and the literature of the period--Derek G. Neal here plumbs the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between th.

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