Table of Contents

Part 1 Constructing masculinities: the herrenfrage: the restructuring of the gender system, 1050-1150, Jo Ann McNamara; On being a male in the Middle Ages, Vern L. Bullough; The [dis]embodied hero and the signs of manhood in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Clare R. Kinney. Part 2 Men in institutions: Burdens of matrimony - husbanding and gender in medieval Italy, Susan Mosher Stuard; Subaltern patriarchs - patrician bachelors in Renaissance Venice, Stanley Chojnacki; Friars, sanctity, and gender - mendicant encounters with saints, 1250-1325. John Coakley; The male animal in the fables of Marie de France, Harriet Spiegel. Part 3 Epic and empire: Men and Beowulf, Clare A. Lees; Men in the Roman d'Eneas - the construction of empire, Christopher Baswell; Representing "other" men Muslims, Jews, and masculine ideals in medieval Castilian epic and ballad, Louise Mirrer.