Be a Perfect Man

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