Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-12

SHIFTING MASCULINITIES

pp 13-14

1 - Work, Writing, and Elite Masculinity in the Lyrics of Baudri of Bourgueil

pp 15-30

2 - Masculinity as Competence

pp 31-52

3 - The Many Faces of Qahramān: A Medieval Persianate Romance as a Window on Mongol and Muslim Masculinities in the Volga-Ural Region (1400s–1700s)

pp 53-72

FLUID MASCULINITIES

pp 73-74

4 - Marked Differences: Beards in Renaissance Europe

pp 75-100

5 - Spurs and Negotiations of Masculinity in Early Modern England

pp 101-124

6 - Mars Asleep: Discarded Swords in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

pp 125-152

TRANSFORMING MASCULINITIES

pp 153-154

7 - Military Masculinities in La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin

pp 155-174

8 - From the Knightly Bayard to Captain Monluc: Representations of Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century French Military Literature

pp 175-192

9 - The Effeminate Man and the Rhetoric of Anxious Masculinity: Anton Francesco Doni and Scipione Ammirato

pp 193-214

Index

pp 215-222

Gender in The Middle Ages

pp 223-224