Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Why Men? -- Introduction -- Part I. Constructing Masculinities -- 1. The Herrenfrage: The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050-1150 -- 2. On Being a Male in the Middle Ages -- 3. The (Dis)Embodied Hero and the Signs of Manhood in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Part II. Men in Institutions -- 4. Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy -- 5. Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors in Renaissance Venice -- 6. Friars, Sanctity, and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325 -- 7. The Male Animal in the Fables of Marie de France -- Part III. Epic and Empire -- 8. Men and Beowulf -- 9. Men in the Roman d'Eneas: The Construction of Empire -- 10. Representing "Other" Men: Muslims, Jews, and Masculine Ideals in Medieval Castilian Epic and Ballad -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.