Governing masculinities in the early modern period : regulating selves and others /

Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculinities. It examines the tensions between normative discourses and lived experiences and their manifestations in a range of different sources.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Broomhall, Susan, Van Gent, Jacqueline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
Series:Women and gender in the early modern world.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Civic manliness in London, c.1380-1550 / Stephanie Turbin
  • Masculine republics: establishing authority in the early modern Venetian printshop / Rosa Salzberg
  • Jean Martin, governor of the Grand Bureau des Pauvres, on charity and the civic duty of governing men in Paris, c.1580 / Lisa Keane Elliott
  • Codpieces and potbellies in the Songes drolatiques: satirizing masculine self-control in early modern France and Germany / Jennifer Spinks
  • The obligations of governing masculinity in the early Stuart gentry family: the Barringtons of Hatfield Broad Oak / Jared van Duinen
  • Militant masculinity and the monuments of Westminster Abbey / Peter Sherlock
  • Between corporate and familial responsibility: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and masculine governance in Europe and the Dutch colonial world / Susie Protschky
  • Raiding the patriarch's toolbox: reading masculine governance in cases of male witchcraft, 1592-1692 / Jacqueline Van Gent
  • Side-wounds, sex, and savages: Moravian masculinities and early modern Protestant missions / Jacqueline Van Gent
  • Alternative hierarchies: manhood and unbelief in early modern Europe, 1660-1750 / Giovanni Tarantino
  • Men controlling bodies: medical consultation by letter in France, 1680-1780 / Robert Weston
  • Attitudes towards male authority and domestic violence in eighteenth-century London courts / Joanne McEwan
  • Policing bodies in urban Scotland, 1780-1850 / David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall.