Be a Perfect Man: Christian Masculinity and the Carolingian Aristocracy

✍ Scribed by Andrew J. Romig

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Be a Perfect Man, Andrew J. Romig argues that Carolingian representations of caritas served as a discourse of power, a means by which early medieval writers made claims, both explicit and implicit, about the hierarchies of masculine power that they believed ought to exist within their world.

In Be a Perfect Man, Andrew J. Romig argues that Carolingian representations of caritas served as a discourse of power, a means by which early medieval writers made claims, both explicit and implicit, about the hierarchies of masculine power that they believed ought to exist within their world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction. Ideology, Gender, and Discourse in the Carolingian World
Chapter 1. The Authority of the Ascetic Male
Chapter 2. Manifestos of Carolingian Power
Chapter 3. Louis the Pious and the Manliness of Forgiving
Chapter 4. Questioning Caritas in the Time of Troubles
Chapter 5. The Emergence of the Secular- Spiritual Hybrid
Conclusion. Manliness and Empathy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments