In de bijdragen wordt aandacht besteed aan ontwikkelingen in de mannelijke identiteit gedurende de Middeleeuwen. Bevat: Body doubles: producing the masculine corpus / door D. Vance Smith: Becoming Christian, becoming male? / door Steven F. Kruger: Where the boys are: children and sex in Anglo-Saxon penitentials / door Allen J. Frantzen: Ironic intertextuality and the reader's resistance to heroic masculinity in the Waltharius / door David Townsend: Abelard and (re)writing the male body: castration, identity, and remasculinization / door Martin Irvine: Origenary fantasies: Abelard's castration and confession / door Bonnie Wheeler: Abelard's blissful castration / door Yves Ferroul: Eunuchs who keep the sabbath: becoming male and the ascetic ideal in thirteenth-century Jewish mysticism / door Elliot R. Wolfson: Sharing wine, women, and song: masculine identity formation in the Medieval European universities / door Ruth Mazo Karras: Wolf man / door Leslie Dunton-Downer: Gowther among the dogs: becoming inhuman c. 1400 / door Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: Erotic discipline...or 'Tee hee, I like my boys to be girls': inventing with the body in Chaucer's Miller's tale / door Glenn Burger: The pardoner, veiled and unveiled / door Robert S. Sturges: Transvestite knights in Medieval life and literature / door Ad Putter: The vicious guise: effeminacy, sodomy, and Mankind / door Garrett P.J. Epp: Ouwlaw masculinities: drag, blackface, and late Medieval laboring-class festivities / door Claire Sponsler: Normative heterosexuality in history and theory: the case of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount / door R. James Goldstein: On becoming-male / door Michael Uebel.