"This book explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has focused on urban space and fears about the effects of city life; f…
The author describes how young men were trained to take their place in medieval society through institutions as the university, the aristocratic household and court, and the craft workshop, and the implications of that training for the construction of gender in the fourteenth an…
An exploration of the creation of adult masculine identities in the 14th-15th centuries, this volume takes a close look at the roles of men through the lens of three distinct institutions: the university, the aristocratic household & court, & the craft workshop.
