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From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe

From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe

Hardcover

Series: Middle Ages Series

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAnthropologyMen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0812236998
ISBN13: 9780812236996
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

While the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belonging to a particular group. Knights, monks, apprentices, guildsmen all underwent a process of initiation into their unique subcultures. As From Boys to Men shows, the process of this socialization reveals a great deal about medieval ideas of what it meant to be a man--as distinguished from a boy, from a woman, and even from a beast.

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