New Publication by College of Arts Professor Emerita Jacqueline Murray

Jacqueline Murray, College of Arts professor emerita, History, has published Premodern Masculinities in Transition, co-edited with Professor Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto) with Boydell and Brewer in the United Kingdom. This is the third volume of essays Murray has published in the past two years focussing on premodern masculinities. Articles range across the twelfth to seventeenth centuries, from western Europe to the Volga-Ural region, from the Christian west to the Muslim east, from Ottomans to Mongols and Persians. The collection reveals how masculinity was understood, inculcated, lived, performed, and viewed. Finally, in that period of great transformation that is the sixteenth century, the collection illustrates how masculinity moved away from the traditional and recognizable to become something different and distinct from its premodern expressions, perhaps even something resembling the modern.