Screen LibraryBe a perfect man : Christian masculinity and the Carolingian aristocracy /
The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hunting; betrothal, marriage, and the virile production of heirs; and the masterful command of a promin...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The Middle Ages series
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| Summary: |
The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hunting; betrothal, marriage, and the virile production of heirs; and the masterful command of a prominent household. In Be a Perfect Man, Andrew J. Romig argues that Carolingian masculinity was constituted just as centrally by the performance of caritas, defined by the early medieval scholar Alcuin of York as a complete and all-inclusive love for God and for fellow human beings, flowing from the w |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 253 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-241) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780812249248 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0812249240 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | DC70 |
| CLC: |
B844.6-09 D750.8-09 |
| Call Number: | D750.8-09/R765 |