Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine : a Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine : a Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius
ISBN-10
0415209420
ISBN-13
9780415209427
Series
Amor and Psyche
Category
Psychology
Pages
196
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Psychology Press
Author
Erich Neumann

Description

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

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