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Gender issues have been a persistent topic of investigation in European culture for more than a millennium. Today, perhaps no topic is of more immediate interest to students and scholars than sexual identity. If earlier eras imagined the categories of male and female as fixed, our own age has come to believe that notions of gender are, to a considerable extent, constructed by society and thus necessarily unstable. Using current understandings of sexuality, the contributors to this collection examine afresh such diverse works as Augustine’s Confessions, the Old English Beowulf, the French Richard Coer de Lyon, German mæren, Chrétien’s Yvain, writings by Wyclif and other Lollards, the poetry of Aemelia Lanyer, and an Italian portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. As the authors of this collection demonstrate, these thinkers persistently challenged the status quo, questioning assumptions felt as facts. In turn, they demonstrate how the medieval and Renaissance writers who are the subject of these essays helped prepare the way for understanding masculinity and femininity as masculinities and femininities.

Arts and society --- European literature --- Femininity in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Masculinity in literature. --- Männlichkeit. --- Sex role in literature. --- Sex role --- Social role in literature. --- Weiblichkeit. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Femininity in literature --- Féminité dans la littérature --- Mannelijkheid in de literatuur --- Masculinity in literature --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex role in literature --- Vrouwelijkheid in de literatuur --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Féminité dans la littérature --- Littérature médiévale --- Littérature européenne --- Histoire et critique --- Social role in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- History --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Literature [Medieval ] --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Masculinité (psychologie) --- Féminité (psychologie) --- Moyen-Âge --- Renaissance --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire

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