Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Isabel.
Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages
- Published
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 222 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 62.
- Description
- Davis explores "intersections between medieval masculine subjectivity and the ethics of labour and living" in Langland's "Piers Plowman," Usk's "The Testament of Love," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," the poetry of Hoccleve, and Chaucer's CYPT. Reads the Canon's Yeoman's performance as a "site of 'gender' trouble'" similar to those of the Wife of Bath and of the Pardoner, more specifically a negotiation of "contemporary ideals about moderate, obedient, and industrious masculinity." Discusses various householders and the Cook. References to masculinity and labor in Chaucer's works occur throughout the volume.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
- Cook and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.