Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; ONE. A Word to the Wise: Men, Gender, and Medieval Masculinities; TWO. Men in Trouble: Warrior Angst in Beowulf; THREE. The Rivalry of the Secular and the Spiritual in the Masculine Personae of Henry Suso's The Life of the Servant; FOUR. Predicaments of Piousness: The Trouble with Being a Learned Jewish Family Man in Premodern Europe; FIVE. The Knight versus the Courtier; SIX. Misogyny, Philogyny, Masculinities: Antonio Pucci's Il Contrasto delle donne and SEVEN. Virtù: Marriage, Gender, and Competing Masculinities in Fourteenth-Century LuccaEIGHT. David and Jonathan: A Late Medieval Bromance; NINE. When Did Servants Become Men?; TEN. Medieval Masculinities without Men; ELEVEN. The Beloved Disciple: From the Gospel of John to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code; List of Contributors; Index