Tracy Adams: “‘Make me chaste and continent, but not yet’: A Model for Clerical Masculinity?”;

Victor Scherb: “Shoulder Companions and Shoulders in Beowulf”;

Lynn Shutters, “Lion Hearts, Saracen Heads, Dog Tails: The Body of the Conqueror in Richard Coer de Lyon”;

Albrecht Classen: “Women Win the Day: The Female Heroine in Late-Medieval German Maeren”;

Megan Moore: “Chrétien’s Romances of Grief: Widows and Their Erotic Bodies”;

Judith H. Bryce: “The Faces of Ginevra de’ Benci: Homosocial Agendas and Female Subjectivity in Later Quattrocentro Florence”;

Elizabeth Schirmer: “‘Trewe Men’: Pastoral Masculinity in Lollard Polemic”;

Ryan Singh Paul: “To See and Be Seen: Aemilia Lanyer’s Poetics of Vision”;

Paul Hartle: “Sleeping with the Menagerie: Sex and the Renaissance Pet”

"Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is thus a heavyweight contribution to the subject." (Andrew Breeze, in: Mediaevistik, vol. 24, 2011, p. 669)

"Bringing together a stimulating variety of essays and offering a quite broad geographical and chronological perspective, this bibliographically informed volume is an interesting contribution to the burgeoning literature on medieval and Renaissance culture, gender, and sexuality, especially with its focus on masculinity." (Androniki Dialeti, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XLIII/1, Spring 2012, p. 174-175)