Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern CultureModerating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and lack in order to exist, what Todd W. Reeser terms moderate masculinity requires two non moderate others one incarnating excess and one embodying lack for its definition. This type of alterity takes a