ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers official texts, it says that Renaissance masculinity was a place marker in a network of gender relations based on marriage as mode of distributing and maintaining property and wealth. Masculinity was a conceptual location that had to be occupied by a given individual in a given way in order for him to produce him in the social sphere as masculine. As such, masculinity might be identified within or as the continuous process of referencing that constituted intertextuality. The intertext that appears in the author's title was both a conceptual discursive domain and a visual field, in a metaphorical sense. It also seems reasonable to claim that the notion of gender difference would have been definitively altered by the dramatic changes that resulted from the major technological developments that inundated the cultural world of the late Renaissance with printed texts.
