Medievalists.net » Dhuoda http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Making of Men, not Masters: Right Order and Lay Masculinity According to Dhuoda and Nithard http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/the-making-of-men-not-masters-right-order-and-lay-masculinity-according-to-dhuoda-and-nithard/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/the-making-of-men-not-masters-right-order-and-lay-masculinity-according-to-dhuoda-and-nithard/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:57:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38930 Setting Nithard’s and Dhuoda’s works in dialogue with one another, this study seeks to explore how the conflicts of the early 840s may have triggered reevaluations of contemporary ideals regarding lay masculinty. At the core of both authors’ works is the understanding that the problems the realm was facing at that time were primarily due to no- blemen’s expression of unmanly modes of conduct.

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