| Series |
Essays and Studies ; 56
Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) ; 56. ^A1189443
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| Contents |
(from table of contents) Reflections on the male body and social masculinity / Jacqueline Murray -- (Imperfect bodies: gender and social liminality). The Scissors or the Sword: The Polyvalent Role of Hair in Merovingian Gaul / H. Peter Johnsson -- Exterior Bodies, Interior Ascent: Corporeality in the "Vitae" of Thirteenth-Century "Conversi" / Alison More -- "Unmaking the Masculine Body": Representations of "Castrati" in the Seventeenth Century / Sara K. Berkowitz -- "What do they mean by a potent man?" Medical Views on Impotence in Early Modern France / Yvonne Petry and Kiegan Lloyd -- "If my sons will have no male heir": Legal and Social Solutions to a Sienese Patriarchal Dread / Elena Brizio -- (Perfect bodies: masculinity, idealism, and contingency). A 'Great Man' Who Became a Virgin: The Masculinity of Prince Henry the 'Navigator' / Ivana Elbl -- Towards a History of Signorial Sexuality: Borso d'Este and the Gestures of Courtly Masculinity / Timothy McCall -- The Homoerotics of Power: Art and Desire in Leonardo's Milan / Maya Corry -- Body Building: The Fabrication of the Masculine Body in Renaissance Portraiture / Tatiana C. String -- The Masculinity of Saint John the Baptist in Renaissance Italian Painting: From Hermit to Athlete of Christ / Fabien Lacouture. |
| Abstract |
"Crossing premodern Europe, the ten articles in this collection examine how, in premodern Europe (10th-17th century) masculinity was constructed by external presentation, such as hair, musculature, sexual prowess, clothing, and honourable behaviour, or deconstructed through bodily defects such a virginity, impotence, castration, non-normative sexuality, or shameful behaviour. Together, they reveal the fluctuations that men experienced and explore how social and embodied masculinity intersected and could reconstruct or redefine masculinity as social and cultural values modified."-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Based on presentations from the international conference "Masculinities in the Premodern World: Continuities, Change, and Contradictions", held in Toronto, November 12-14, 2020, and hosted by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium.--Page 7. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Biographical note | Includes quotations in French, Italian, Latin, or Spanish. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Male body and social masculinity in premodern Europe. Toronto : Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2022 0772711208 9780772711205 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780772711144 (softcover) |
| ISBN | 0772711143 (softcover) |
| ISBN | PDF |
