Bringing together the work of both leading and emerging scholars in the field of medieval gender studies, the essays in "Rivalrous Masculinities" advance our understanding of medieval masculinity as a pluralized category and as an intersectional category of gender. The essays in this volume are distinguished by a conceptual focus that goes beyond heteronormativity and by their attention to constructions of medieval masculinity in the context of femininity, class, religion, and place.
