Acknowledgments

This book is the expanded product of sessions organized by the editors for the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (formerly the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference). Scholars of the Reformation era whose research concentrates on different parts of Europe were asked to reflect on ways in which masculinity was constructed and expressed in the areas they studied. The sessions were held at three successive conferences in 2002, 2003, and 2004, and we thank the Society for allowing us to include these sessions in their programs. We are grateful to all the scholars invited to prepare papers for agreeing to publish their revised essays in this collection.

The editors are among those who contributed papers to those sessions. The essay by Scott Hendrix that appears in this collection, “Masculinity and Patriarchy in Reformation Germany,” is reprinted from the Journal of the History of Ideas 56 (1995). We thank the editors of the Journal and its publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, for allowing the article to be reprinted here.

We also invited two other scholars of early modern Europe, Helmut Puff and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, to contribute essays on masculinity to our collection. The essay by Professor Wiesner-Hanks, “'Lustful Luther': Male Libido in the Writings of the Reformer,” was originally published in Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, edited by Philip M. Soergel (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 3/2, New York: AMS Press, 2005). We extend our appreciation to AMS Press for allowing her essay to be reprinted in this collection. We also thank Sandra Kimball at the University of Arizona for her ongoing assistance, including the preparation of this manuscript. Her intelligent, watchful labors made it possible for Professor Karant-Nunn to take on activities that she otherwise could not have done.

Scott H. Hendrix

Susan C. Karant-Nunn