Who´s your paterfamilias : Erikskrönikans män och högmedeltida svenska manlighetsideal i nytt ljus
(2020) HISK37 20201History
- Abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to investigate the different masculinities represented in the Swedish high medieval historical chronicle “Erikskrönikan” and whether these masculinities are used as a political tool in the text. To the task of resolving these queeries a theoretic framework based on Andres Brink Pintos reading of Judth Butler is employed. The central idea is the concept of performance, a reproduction of ideals through imitation. This is contextualized with the writings of Katherine J Lewis, Mathew Bennet and W.H. Aird on chivalric masculinity. The essay is based on the Pipping edition of “Erikskrönikan" from 1926, widely considered to be the edition now in print that stays closest to the original text.Two more editions of... (More)
- The purpose of this paper is to investigate the different masculinities represented in the Swedish high medieval historical chronicle “Erikskrönikan” and whether these masculinities are used as a political tool in the text. To the task of resolving these queeries a theoretic framework based on Andres Brink Pintos reading of Judth Butler is employed. The central idea is the concept of performance, a reproduction of ideals through imitation. This is contextualized with the writings of Katherine J Lewis, Mathew Bennet and W.H. Aird on chivalric masculinity. The essay is based on the Pipping edition of “Erikskrönikan" from 1926, widely considered to be the edition now in print that stays closest to the original text.Two more editions of “Erikskrönikan” are employed, the Jansson edition from 1986 and the Carlquist, Hogg and Alvered edition from 2019. Where previous literature proposes generational masculinity this essay takes aim at combining it with the Butlerian ideas of performance to create a framework and see whether these ideas are singular observations or could be a wider pattern in medieval chivalric masculinity. The essay clearly proves the existence of these generationally shifting ideals of masculinity in “Erikskrönikan''. It also argues that they could be considered political tools by promoting an ideology of chivalric masculinity. An ideology that can be used to grant legitimacy to the acts of the agents that can be portrayed as “good men” and to justify disloyalty, or as in the text, open rebellion against men that fail to live up to these ideals. The essay proposes not only a new way to understand medieval masculinity but also gives it a political purpose. And by doing so it helps the reader think in new ways not only about medieval Swedish politics but also the people who lived through these times. (Less)
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- author
- Smith Jonsson, Lowe LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- HISK37 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Maskulinitet, manlighet, medeltiden, Erikskrönikan, ridderlighet, rimkrönika, krönika, butler, genushistoria, riddare
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9142353
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- 2024-10-30 18:12:56
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abstract = {{The purpose of this paper is to investigate the different masculinities represented in the Swedish high medieval historical chronicle “Erikskrönikan” and whether these masculinities are used as a political tool in the text. To the task of resolving these queeries a theoretic framework based on Andres Brink Pintos reading of Judth Butler is employed. The central idea is the concept of performance, a reproduction of ideals through imitation. This is contextualized with the writings of Katherine J Lewis, Mathew Bennet and W.H. Aird on chivalric masculinity. The essay is based on the Pipping edition of “Erikskrönikan" from 1926, widely considered to be the edition now in print that stays closest to the original text.Two more editions of “Erikskrönikan” are employed, the Jansson edition from 1986 and the Carlquist, Hogg and Alvered edition from 2019. Where previous literature proposes generational masculinity this essay takes aim at combining it with the Butlerian ideas of performance to create a framework and see whether these ideas are singular observations or could be a wider pattern in medieval chivalric masculinity. The essay clearly proves the existence of these generationally shifting ideals of masculinity in “Erikskrönikan''. It also argues that they could be considered political tools by promoting an ideology of chivalric masculinity. An ideology that can be used to grant legitimacy to the acts of the agents that can be portrayed as “good men” and to justify disloyalty, or as in the text, open rebellion against men that fail to live up to these ideals. The essay proposes not only a new way to understand medieval masculinity but also gives it a political purpose. And by doing so it helps the reader think in new ways not only about medieval Swedish politics but also the people who lived through these times.}},
author = {{Smith Jonsson, Lowe}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Who´s your paterfamilias : Erikskrönikans män och högmedeltida svenska manlighetsideal i nytt ljus}},
year = {{2020}},
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