TY - BOOK ID - 3326133 TI - Masculinities and feminities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance AU - Kiefer, Frederick AU - Brepols PY - 2009 VL - 23 SN - 2503529976 9782503529974 9782503536934 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Arts and society KW - European literature KW - Femininity in literature. KW - Literature, Medieval KW - Masculinity in literature. KW - Männlichkeit. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Sex role KW - Social role in literature. KW - Weiblichkeit. KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Femininity in literature KW - Féminité dans la littérature KW - Mannelijkheid in de literatuur KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Masculinité dans la littérature KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur KW - Sex role in literature KW - Vrouwelijkheid in de literatuur KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Masculinité dans la littérature KW - Féminité dans la littérature KW - Littérature médiévale KW - Littérature européenne KW - Histoire et critique KW - Social role in literature KW - Masculinity (Psychology) in literature KW - Femininity (Psychology) in literature KW - Arts KW - Arts and sociology KW - Society and the arts KW - Sociology and the arts KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects KW - History of civilization KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Literature [Medieval ] KW - Rôle selon le sexe KW - Masculinité (psychologie) KW - Féminité (psychologie) KW - Moyen-Âge KW - Renaissance KW - Dans la littérature KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3326133 AB - Gender issues have been a persistent topic of investigation in European culture for more than a millennium. Today, perhaps no topic is of more immediate interest to students and scholars than sexual identity. If earlier eras imagined the categories of male and female as fixed, our own age has come to believe that notions of gender are, to a considerable extent, constructed by society and thus necessarily unstable. Using current understandings of sexuality, the contributors to this collection examine afresh such diverse works as Augustine’s Confessions, the Old English Beowulf, the French Richard Coer de Lyon, German mæren, Chrétien’s Yvain, writings by Wyclif and other Lollards, the poetry of Aemelia Lanyer, and an Italian portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. As the authors of this collection demonstrate, these thinkers persistently challenged the status quo, questioning assumptions felt as facts. In turn, they demonstrate how the medieval and Renaissance writers who are the subject of these essays helped prepare the way for understanding masculinity and femininity as masculinities and femininities. ER -