Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 267 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781787448193
Series Statement:
Studies in Old Norse literature [4]
Content:
First full investigation of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, kings' sagas, legendary sagas, chivalric sagas, bishops' sagas, and eddic and skaldic verse, producing a broad and multifaceted understanding of what it means to be masculine in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. A critical introduction places the essays in their scholarly context, providing the reader with a concise orientation in gender studies and the study of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. This book's investigation of how masculinities are constructed and challenged within a unique literature is all the more vital in the current climate, in which Old Norse sources are weaponised to support far-right agendas and racist ideologies are intertwined with images of vikings as hypermasculine. This volume counters these troubling narratives of masculinity through explorations of Old Norse literature that demonstrate how masculinity is formed, how it is linked to violence and vulnerability, how it governs men's relationships, and how toxic models of masculinity may be challenged. JESSICA HANCOCK is a Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London; GARETH LLOYD EVANS is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Contributors: Ásdís Egilsdóttir, David Ashurst, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Gareth Lloyd Evans, Oren Falk, Alison Finlay, Jessica Clare Hancock, Jóhanna Katrín Fridriksdóttir, Philip Lavender, Thomas Morcom, Carl Phelpstead, Matthew Roby
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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List of abbreviations
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Introduction
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I Becoming masculine
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Boyhood, Saga-Style: From Mannsefni to Maðr
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The Licit Love Visit: Masculine Sexual Maturation and the ‘Temporary Troll Lover’ Trope
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Female Masculinity and the Sagas of Icelanders
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‘With mirthful merriment’: Masquerade and Masculinity in Mágus saga jarls
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II Masculinity, power, and vulnerability
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Vulnerable Masculinities and the Vicissitudes of Power in Göngu-Hrólfs saga
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Masculinity, Christianity, and (Non)Violence
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Inclusive Masculinity in Morkinskinna and the Defusal of Kingly Aggression
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Emotions of a Vulnerable Viking: Negotiations of Masculinity in Egils saga
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III Men’s relationships
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ʻÞat þótti illr fundr’: Phallic Aggression in Bjarnar saga Hítdoelakappa
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Male Bedpartners and the ‘Intimacies of a Wife’: rekkjufélagar and vífs rúnar
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Companions, Conflicts, and Concubines: Clerical Masculinities in Lárentíus saga biskups
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‘That which a hand gives a hand or a foot gives a foot’: Male Kinship Obligations in the Heroic Poetic Edda and Völsunga saga
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Afterword: The Ethics and Urgency of Studying Old Norse Masculinities
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Bibliography
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843845621
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Masculinities in Old Norse literature Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2020 ISBN 9781843845621
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781787448193
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