What is it about?
This article examines ties between conduct manual books and behaviors specific to early modern Spanish society to demonstrate changes in how aristocracy understood the XVI-XVII century dominant masculine identity.
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Why is it important?
This article proposes that the conduct manuals change pre-established 16th to the 17th century behaviors by allowing conscious learning of their concepts. Also, they enable men to adopt and perform new courtly masculine traits regardless of social class, unlike previous generations where these values were reserved for the aristocracy.
Perspectives
The importance of this article relies on its observation of the historical changes in the dominant masculine identity across renaissance Europe, focusing mainly on Spain. This research acknowledges that the texts that enabled these changes, conduct manuals, generate a new wave of social mobility because they enable masculine prestige to escape its previous limitation to nobility by enabling individuals from any social class to adopt it.
Xabier Granja Ibarreche
University of Alabama System
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This page is a summary of: Refashioning Early Modern Masculine Performance through manuales de conducta, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, June 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2018.1482046.
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