The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

The New Middle Ages

by Christina M. Fitzgerald (contributor)

Introduction Men in the Household, Guild, and City The Domestic Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life Acting Like a Christ and Masculinity

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Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

The theme is very interesting. The scholarship is of very low quality and quite unreliable.

"Given the economic importance of the household in the late Middle Ages, it makes surprisingly few appearances in the cycle plays performed by medieval artisans and merchants, and then mostly in the stories of the Old Testament and the infancy of Christ."

So, either the documentation that shows the household importance is wrong - as they are all biased, or the plays of that era are preoccupied with the exceptional and uninterested in the common. Either way something is wrong. Author's conclusion? "it is surprising" Wow! That is deep.

[Roger Ladd]

I'm reviewing this one for the Medieval Review, so I don't think I should comment on it here.