MEANINGS OF MANHOOD IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

Reissue. Softcover. Publisher's original card covers, with titles in white and yellow to the front cover and spine. With two black and white illustrations and ten black and white tables and graphs throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with mild creasing to the spine and light rubbing to the extremities. The contents, with a pencil notation (by Dr Richard Rowland, author on the Renaissance and classical mythology, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York) to the front endpaper and two instances of pencilled marginalia (to pages 113 and 115 respectively), are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps.

First published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. 'This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that, while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and opposed by men as well as women' (publisher's blurb).