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Martial Materiality, Masculinity, and the Expression of Knightly Identity 1350-1425
Martial Materiality, Masculinity, and the Expression of Knightly Identity 1350-1425
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103105
- ISBN
- 9798315711834
- DDC
- 940.1
- 서명/저자
- Martial Materiality, Masculinity, and the Expression of Knightly Identity 1350-1425
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 484 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Bull, Marcus G.;Whalen, Brett E.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation is a contribution to the study of late medieval English and French martial aristocratic culture. It examines the relationship between knights, their material world, and their notions of masculinity. To do so, it traces the form and function of two major categories of chivalric objects: plate armor and noble animals. In texts and images, these were the things by means of which members of the arms-bearing elite reified their homosocial bonds: to be a man in this world was instinctively to know how to act in accordance with the meanings of one's equipment and animals. This dissertation utilizes chronicles, chivalric biographies, funerary documents, illuminated manuscripts, tomb effigies, and surviving examples of armor, among other texts and objects, to bridge the divides between technical studies, military history, and gender history. Ultimately, it argues that the struggle of aristocratic self-fashioning, the agon of becoming a man, stabilized chivalric culture during the tumult of the Hundred Years War. The attitudes toward, and functions of, armor and animals in a martial context facilitated patterns in masculine expression that tended to transcend social and military disruptions. Chapter One serves as a foundation for the rest of the dissertation: it establishes the social and military roles of knights, illustrates the kind of armor they wore, and examines how elite animals were bred and used. Chapter Two analyzes how knights asserted their masculinity in battle, and how narratives of battle reveal chivalric notions of "victory" and "defeat" centered on individual deeds and remembrance. Chapter Three examines the role of armor and animals in spectacles of violence, and how knights manipulated the gaze of their peers in duels, jousts, and hunts. Finally, Chapter Four argues that armor and animals, as gifts, forged homosocial bonds between fighting men and facilitated transformations in the knightly life cycle. Taken together, these episodes and artifacts illustrate how and why armor and animals enabled masculine self-fashioning; from a knight's childhood to senescence they shaped his body, defended him in battle, exhibited him in spectacles, and accompanied him in death.
- 일반주제명
- Medieval history
- 일반주제명
- Military history
- 일반주제명
- Gender studies
- 일반주제명
- Sexuality
- 키워드
- Animals
- 키워드
- Armor
- 키워드
- Knights
- 키워드
- Masculinity
- 키워드
- Materiality
- 기타저자
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025.
■520 ▼aThis dissertation is a contribution to the study of late medieval English and French martial aristocratic culture. It examines the relationship between knights, their material world, and their notions of masculinity. To do so, it traces the form and function of two major categories of chivalric objects: plate armor and noble animals. In texts and images, these were the things by means of which members of the arms-bearing elite reified their homosocial bonds: to be a man in this world was instinctively to know how to act in accordance with the meanings of one's equipment and animals. This dissertation utilizes chronicles, chivalric biographies, funerary documents, illuminated manuscripts, tomb effigies, and surviving examples of armor, among other texts and objects, to bridge the divides between technical studies, military history, and gender history. Ultimately, it argues that the struggle of aristocratic self-fashioning, the agon of becoming a man, stabilized chivalric culture during the tumult of the Hundred Years War. The attitudes toward, and functions of, armor and animals in a martial context facilitated patterns in masculine expression that tended to transcend social and military disruptions. Chapter One serves as a foundation for the rest of the dissertation: it establishes the social and military roles of knights, illustrates the kind of armor they wore, and examines how elite animals were bred and used. Chapter Two analyzes how knights asserted their masculinity in battle, and how narratives of battle reveal chivalric notions of "victory" and "defeat" centered on individual deeds and remembrance. Chapter Three examines the role of armor and animals in spectacles of violence, and how knights manipulated the gaze of their peers in duels, jousts, and hunts. Finally, Chapter Four argues that armor and animals, as gifts, forged homosocial bonds between fighting men and facilitated transformations in the knightly life cycle. Taken together, these episodes and artifacts illustrate how and why armor and animals enabled masculine self-fashioning; from a knight's childhood to senescence they shaped his body, defended him in battle, exhibited him in spectacles, and accompanied him in death.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0153.
■650 4▼aMedieval history
■650 4▼aMilitary history
■650 4▼aGender studies
■650 4▼aSexuality
■653 ▼aAnimals
■653 ▼aArmor
■653 ▼aKnights
■653 ▼aMasculinity
■653 ▼aMateriality
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17356944▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


