Originally published: 1997. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Becoming male / Michael Uebel. Becoming Christian, becoming male? / Steven F. Kruger -- Where the boys are : children and sex in the Anglo Saxon penitentials / Allen J. Fantzen -- Ironic intertextuality and the reader's resistance to heroic masculinity in the Waltharius / David Townsend -- Abelard and rewriting 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 and 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 -- Pardoner, veiled and unveiled / Robert S. Sturges -- Transvestite knights in medieval life and literature / Ad Putter -- Viscious guise : effeminacy, sodomy, and mankind / Garrett P.J. Epp -- Outlaw masculinities : drag, blackface, and late medieval laboring class festivities / Claire Sponsler -- Normative hetersexuality in history and theory : case of Sir David Lindsay of the mount / R. James Goldstein -- Becoming male / Michael Uebel.
Series:
The new Middle Ages ; v. 4. The new Middle Ages ; v. 4.
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