WRITING MASCULINITY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES by Davis, Isabel, ISABEL DAVIS ISBN 9780521866378, 0521866375 instant download

WRITING MASCULINITY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES by Davis, Isabel, ISABEL DAVIS ISBN 9780521866378, 0521866375 instant download

Medieval Discourses Of Masculinity And Male Sexuality Were Closely Linked To The Idea And Representation Of Work As A Male Responsibility. Isabel Davis Identifies A Discourse Of Masculine Selfhood Which Is Preoccupied With The Ethics Of Labour And Domestic Living. She Analyses How Five Major London Writers Of The Late Fourteenth And Early Fifteenth Centuries Constructed The Male Self.--jacket. Introduction : Writing Masculinity In The Later Middle Ages -- The Masculine Ethics Of Langland's Piers Plowman -- Them And Usk : Writing Home In The Middle Ages -- John Gower's 'strange Places' : Errant Masculinity In The Confessio Amantis -- 'and Of My Swynk Yet Blered Is Myn Ye' : Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman Looks In The Mirror -- Autobiography And Skin : The Work Of Thomas Hoccleve. Isabel Davis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 168-217) And Index. \"Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel Davis identifies a discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and domestic living. She analyses how five major London writers of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries constructed the male self.\"--Jacket Isabel Davis identifies a medieval discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and domestic living in readings of Langland, Usk, Gower, Chaucer and Hoccleve. Davis presents a genuinely fresh perspective on ideas about gender, labour and domestic life in medieval Britain.