Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 5584
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Karras , Ruth Mazo.
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  • Title: Separating the Men from the Goats: Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University [the author analyzes an initiation ritual and argues that students thereby transcend the bestial and the feminine to become part of a cultural male elite].
  • Source: Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West.  Edited by Jacqueline Murray.  Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999.  Pages 189 - 213.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Goat, Image of Initiation Rites Masculinity Sexuality Students Universities and Colleges
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: Temple University
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  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815330308