... concretely a number of pervasive social and cultural anxieties about masculine self-presentation in Bruno's time. This essay brings together literary and cultural history within the broader context of gender and body studies of Renaissance Italy, in particular, and, more generally, of the European...

... and psychological weapons. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 medieval English chivalry knighthood masculine body Secreta Secretorum Knyghthode and Bataile • • Bodies Hardened for War...

... illustrations, it also depends upon those mutilated, criminal bodies that have been dissected. Further, through posture and pose the illustrations invoke the elite parts of the masculine spaces of war and the academy, but the dis- sected criminal bodies that compose the basis for the illustrations...

... and speaking, attacking and defend- ing, the miracle confirms what the chronicle continues to claim: the saint’s body is intact. Visualized as living and active, Æthelthryth leads the defense of her monastic community. Because this scene engenders the saint as a masculinized warrior, it redirects...

..., tells us that the law called such pledges of mutual acceptance and lasting fidelity “matrimonial contracts.” This was the commonest formula “hallowed by long usage and sanctioned by the church.” 13 For a treatment of the gaze in terms of Malory’s masculine “body chivalric,” see Kathleen...

... urinated and [which she had] kept fastened against her nude body.” When drunk and challenged by the mother- in-law, Lincken had urinated on the woman and a companion in order to demonstrate masculinity. As a codefendant in an ensuing sodomy trial, the wife continued to insist that she was fooled...

...Jessica A. Boon For thirteen years, the Clarissan Juana de la Cruz (1481 – 1534) gave public “sermones” during which Christ’s voice was reported to issue from her rapt body, expanding on the biblical record and describing festivities in heaven that feature considerable fluidity in gender...

... a catalogue of death that is stunning in both its variety and its comprehensiveness. 1 Alliterative long lines illustrate, in often excruciating detail, some of the many ways the human body can meet its ultimate end: one is eaten by a wolf, another is killed in a storm, a third dies in battle. A person...

.... Bessarion and his disciple Doulas, as we shall see, dis- cover that their anonymous monk “was a woman by nature ( phusis)” (Apoph. patr., Bessarion 4). Thus the sayings present an ancient version of the mod- ern assignment of sex (man or woman) to the body or to nature, and of gen- der (masculine...

... as a nonproductive term in the fiction, a passive recipient of the mythic flea who only becomes meaningful through a colonization that produces “her” desire. While the masculine transformation myth wielded by Pasquier per- mitted the invasion and mastery of a female body, Catherine Des Roches in her...

... in an unstable universe, Lydgate locates the source of women’s mutability in the cultural contingency that accompanies masculine violence, especially war. Henryson’s bracing meditation on Cresseid’s physical demise exposes the heroic exploitation of women’s virtue, but it also constructs a tangible form...

.... Stafford and Mulder-Bakker, 6–21. 32 Space precludes further discussion of another area of change: ascetic masculinity. Suf- fice it to say that one change was away from moderation in ascetic practice toward overt and competitive displays. This produced much debate on sexuality, the body...

... linked to prevailing expectations of gendered behavior, written conventions for expressing emotions such as grief and sorrow, as well as medical beliefs about men’s and women’s bodies. The resulting analysis offers rich insights into the words and views of patients and into gendered experiences and self...

..., masculine espe- cially insofar as it is sexualized, is entangled with the state of his forests —  that his mystical body is a vegetal one. • Notes I would like to thank the anonymous reader for JMEMS, whose perceptive comments helped make this essay stronger. An earlier version of part...

... criminal could not have been aware that her empty uterus would become a symbol for masculine scientific investigation and triumph over the unruly female body for generations to come. Although the above story is by now familiar to many, it may be worthwhile to pause again on the Fabrica’s...

... sex. That a heroic, Christic, and masculine motif of suffering in love (witnessed especially in the courtly language of her poems) assumes a dominant tone in parts of her work shows how her outer body lives its promise and way of loving. Her experience, desire, and suffer- ing are, however...

...-sacrificial dismemberment of his cocks as the affirmation of pro- Hamill / Cockfighting as Cultural Allegory  405 jected masculine values: “The cock has been carefully nurtured by man, even with man’s own products, his body fluids, for a long period...

...” is the subversive behavior and leaky bodies of these two women; in fact, the male genitalia only emphasizes the unnatural, masculine behavior demonstrated by these publicly violent wives. Unpoliced by their husbands, the Taylours Wyfe and Sowtars Wyfe emerge from the confines of their failed domesticity...

... of female personifica- tion allegories, suggests that allegory is a gendered literary mode.12 Indeed, medieval readers seem to have presumed both the femininity of allegory’s “veil” and the masculinity of interpretive “penetration,” such that, as Sheila Delany points out, the allegorical body could...

... Brathwait, “delicacy in the habit, begets an effeminacy in the heart.”54 With all this “pampering,” the man who wears such clothes places his masculinity into question.55 And again we return to the notion that the cloth one wears leads to disease. The “weakening” of the body through fine stuffs places...