Masculine Self in Late Medieval England

图书信息

作者	Derek G. Neal
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226569598
出版时间	2009-05-15
字数	61.5万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

What did it mean to be a man in medieval EnglandMost 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 the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. He discovers that social relations between men, founded on the ideals of honesty and self-restraint, were at least as important as their domination and control of women in defining their identities. By carefully exploring the social, physical, and psychological aspects of masculinity, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England offers a uniquely comprehensive account of the exterior and interior lives of medieval men.

目录

Acknowledgments

Note on Primary Sources

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE　False Thieves and True Men

MASCULINE IDENTITY FORMATION IN A SOCIETY OF STRESSES

THE UNKNOWN MAJORITY

MANHOOD IN THE TOWNS

LIVELIHOOD, REPUTATION , AND CONFLICT

FALSE THIEVES

THE LANGUAGE OF THE COMMON VOICE (AND FAME)

TRUE MEN

IDEAL AND REALITY

THE LEGAL RHETORIC OF MASCULINITY

CHAPTER TWO　Husbands and Priests

HUSBANDRY(I):　POLLERS, EXTORCIONERS, AND ADULTERERS

Substance

Pollers and Extorcioners

Polling, Cutting, and Loss of Substance

Adulterers

HUSBANDRY(II):　THE HOUSEHOLD FROM INSIDE

Adulteresses

Wives and Servants

PRIESTS VERSUS HUSBANDS, PRIESTS AS HUSBANDS

Clergy in English Society

Conflict

The Social Meaning of Celibacy

The Rector and the Bailiff

Clergymen and the Household

Blaming the Friars

Celibacy and Gender Identity: What Was the Real Problem?

CHAPTER THREE　Sex and Gender: The Meanings of the Male Body

FROM PHYSIOLOGY TO PERSONALITY

MEDIEVAL MALENESS:　FORM AND MEANING

MANLINESS AND ATTRACTIVENESS

FROM PHALLUS TO PENIS (OR VICE VERSA?)

HUSBANDLY SEXUALITY

AN INCOMPLETE HUSBAND

THE MALE BODY IN ACTION

THE USES OF MISRULE

DRESS

THE DANGERS OF THE TONGUE

CHAPTER FOUR　Toward the Private Self: Desire, Masculinity, and Middle English Romance

HISTORY, FICTION, AND LITERATURE

THE LITERARY SUBJECT

THE ROMANCE OF MASCULINITY

ALL HER FAULT

THE DANGERS OF DESIRE

NARCISSISTIC MASCULINITY AND THE RAPE OF MELIOR

MOTHERS

LOVERS INVISIBLE AND UNSPEAKABLE

FATHERS UNKNOWN AND FORBIDDEN

THE FATHER UNKNOWN: BEVIS OF HAMPTON

BETTER THE NIGHTMARE YOU KNOW: LYBEAUS DESCONUS

FATHER FORBIDDEN, FATHER CREATED: OF ARTHOUR AND OF MERLIN

EMPLOTTED DESIRE: SIR PERCEVAL OF GALLES

DESIRE AND DREAD: SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

BEYOND NARCISSISM? YWAIN AND GAWAIN

CONCLUSION

WHAT HAS THIS HISTORIAN DONE WITH MASCULINITY?

CHRONOLOGY

THE OTHER HALF

ARCHIVALSOURCES