1. Discovering Manhood -- Gender roles and responsibilities -- Sources and methodologies -- 2. Constructing Manhood -- Manhood -- Honourable manhood -- Acquiring honourable manhood -- 3. Asserting Manhood -- Dangerous passions -- Women's talk -- Married life -- 4. Lost Manhood -- The cuckold's wife -- Community reactions to lost manhood -- Occupation and office -- Paternity -- Male friendships -- Jealousy: fictional evidence -- Jealousy: a case study -- 5. Restoring Manhood -- Legal action and defamation -- Legal action and adultery -- Reconciliation -- Violence against men -- Violence against women -- Taming the scold -- Contented and wittol cuckolds -- 6. Conclusion: Continuity and change in early modern manhood.
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