Masculinity in the Reformation Era / / ed. by Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Scott H. Hendrix.

• MitwirkendeR: Hendrix, Scott H.,; Karant-Nunn, Susan C.,; Mentzer, Raymond A.,; Poska, Allyson M.,; Puff, Helmut,; Spierling, Karen E.,; Strasser, Ulrike,; Tlusty, B. Ann,; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hendrix, Scott H.,; Karant-Nunn, Susan C.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 83
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

These essays add a unique perspective to studies that reconstruct the identity of manhood in early modern Europe, including France, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. The authors examine the ways in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authorities, both secular and religious, labored to turn boys...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One: Deviating from the Norms
• A Married Man Is a Woman
• The Reform of Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland
• "The First Form and Grace"
• Masculinity and Patriarchy in Reformation Germany
• Part Two: Civic and Religious Duties
• Father, Son, and Pious Christian
• Masculinity and the Reformed Tradition in France
• Rumor, Fear, and Male Civic Duty during a Confessional Crisis
• Part Three: The Man Martin Luther
• The Masculinity of Martin Luther
• "Lustful Luther"
• About the Contributors
• Index