Becoming Male in the Middle Ages [Hardcover]

Contents

Becoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler

Body Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus   D. Vance Smith

Becoming Christian, Becoming Male? Steven F. Kruger

Where the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials Allen J. Frantzen

Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius   David Townsend

Abelard and (Re)writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization Martin Irvine

Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession Bonnie Wheeler

Abelard's Blissful Castration Yves Ferroul

Eunuchs who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism Elliot R. Wolfson

Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities Ruth Mazo Karras

Wolf Man Leslie Dunton-Downer

Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Erotic Discipline...Or Tee Hee, I like my boys to be girls : Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale   Glenn Burger

The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled Robert S. Sturges

Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature Ad Putter

The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind      Garrett P. J. Epp

Outlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities  Clailós