From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe

by Ruth Mazo Karras

Book Overview

While the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belonging to a particular group. Knights, monks, apprentices, guildsmen all underwent a process of initiation into their unique subcultures. As From Boys to Men shows, the process of this socialization reveals a great deal about medieval ideas of what it meant to be a man--as distinguished from a boy, from a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218345
• ISBN13: 9780812218343
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"