Rivalrous Masculinities II

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Ingrid Bennewitz and Ann Marie Rasmussen

Organizer Affiliation

Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Otto-Friedrich-Univ. Bamberg, Duke Univ.

Presider Name

Ingrid Bennewitz

Paper Title 1

The Knight versus the Courtier

Presenter 1 Name

Darrin Cox

Presenter 1 Affiliation

West Liberty Univ.

Paper Title 2

Against All Others? Brotherly Masculinity and Its Rivals in the Late Middle Ages

Presenter 2 Name

Cameron W. Bradley

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Paper Title 3

"Folwed Ay His Bodily Delyt": Age and Masculine Desire in the Chaucerian Fabliau

Presenter 3 Name

Cody Walter Krumrie

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Auburn Univ.

Start Date

11-5-2013 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I 102

Description

Papers on competing ideals, interests, mentalities, aspirations and behaviors characterizing late medieval masculine identities. Papers in this session focus on late medieval France and England, and include papers discussing Chaucer and the Chronicles (Chroniques) of Froissart. They also consider the trope of aging; the history of the idea of the bachelor; brotherhood as a form of rivalry; and late medieval changes in the ideal conceptions of knight and courtier as competing forms of high status masculine identity. Ann Marie Rasmussen