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.
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2011]
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| Series: | Women and gender in the early modern world.
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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.