Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (Paperback)

Contents Becoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler Body Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus D. Vance Smith Becoming Christian, Becoming Male? Steven F. Kruger Where the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials Allen J. Frantzen Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the Waltharius David Townsend Abelard and (Re)writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization Martin Irvine Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession Bonnie Wheeler Abelard's Blissful Castration Yves Ferroul Eunuchs who Keep the Sabbath: Becoming Male and the Ascetic Ideal in Thirteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism Elliot R. Wolfson Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in the Medieval European Universities Ruth Mazo Karras Wolf Man Leslie Dunton-Downer Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman C. 1400 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Erotic Discipline...Or "Tee Hee, I like my boys to be girls": Inventing with the Body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale Glenn Burger The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled Robert S. Sturges Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and Literature Ad Putter The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind Garrett P. J. Epp Outlaw Masculinities: Drag, Blackface, and Late Medieval Laboring-Class Festivities Claire Sponsler Normative Heterosexuality in History and Theory: The Case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount R. James Goldstein On Becoming-Male Michael Uebel