Masculinity in Byzantium, C. 10001200 - Scholars, Clerics and Violence

"Exploring the role of learning, violence and religious status in the construction of Byzantine masculinities, this book is valuable for scholars and students of gender, posthumanism and disability in any period as well as of Byzantine and medieval history"--

List of contents

1. Michael Psellos: writing like a man, 'throwing like a girl'; 2. Ioannes Tzetzes: a scholar and his animals; 3. Gregorios Antiochos: disabled bodies and desired becomings; 4. Hunting Churchmen; 5. Fighting the good fight.

About the author

MAROULA PERISANIDI is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, researching disability in Byzantium. She has previously held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which allowed her to publish widely on canon law, sexuality and gender, including her first monograph on Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Maroula Perisanidi, Maroula (University of Leeds) Perisanidi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009499798
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0949979-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Disability: social aspects, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Byzantine Empire, 11th century, c 1000 to c 1099, Social groups: religious groups and communities, 12th century, c 1100 to c 1199, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299