The Routledge Handbook Of Gender And Sexuality In Byzantium

Author : Mati Meyer,Charis Messis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 0367490935

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium by Mati Meyer,Charis Messis Pdf

This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on both modern theories and Byzantine perceptions, and considering multiple periods and religions (Eastern Orthodox, Islamic, and Jewish), it provides evidentiary textual and visual material support for an analysis of the two linked themes. Broadly, the essays demonstrate that gender and sexual constructs in Byzantium were porous. As a result, they expand our knowledge not only of how sex and gender were conceived and performed, but also how ideas and practices shaped Byzantine life. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of late antique and Byzantine religion, history, culture and art, who will find it a useful critical survey of current scholarship and one that shines new light in their areas of research. The focus on issues of gender and sexuality may also be of interest to individuals concerned with Eastern Mediterranean culture, as well as to the broader public.

Author : Mati Meyer,Charis Messis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040043455

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium by Mati Meyer,Charis Messis Pdf

This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman Empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on both modern theories and Byzantine perceptions, and considering multiple periods and religions (Eastern Orthodox, Islamic, and Jewish), it provides evidentiary textual and visual material support for an analysis of the two linked themes. Broadly, the essays demonstrate that gender and sexual constructs in Byzantium were porous. As a result, they expand our knowledge of not only how sex and gender were conceived and performed but also how ideas and practices shaped Byzantine life. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of late antique and Byzantine religion, history, culture, and art, who will find it a useful critical survey of current scholarship and one that shines new light in their areas of research. The focus on issues of gender and sexuality may also be of interest to individuals concerned with Eastern Mediterranean culture, as well as to the broader public. Chapter 21 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691179452

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Byzantine Intersectionality by Roland Betancourt Pdf

"Intersectionality, a term coined in 1989, is rapidly increasing in importance within the academy, as well as in broader civic conversations. It describes the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities such as race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual orientation alongside related systems of oppression, domination, and discrimination. Together, these frameworks are used to understand how systematic injustice or social inequality occurs. In this book, Roland Betancourt examines the presence of marginalized identities and intersectionality in the medieval era. He reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and reproductive consent, bullying, non-monogamous marriages, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and non-binary gender identifications, representations of disability, and the oppression of minorities. In contrast to contemporary expectations of the medieval world, this book looks at these problems from the Byzantine Empire and its neighbors in the eastern mediterranean through sources ranging from late antiquity and early Christianity up to the early modern period. In each of five chapters, Betancourt provides short, carefully scaled narratives used to illuminate nuanced and surprising takes on now-familiar subjects by medieval thinkers and artists. For example, Betancourt examines depictions of sexual consent in images of the Virgin; the origins of sexual shaming and bullying in the story of Empress Theodora; early beginnings of trans history as told in the lives of saints who lived portions of their lives within different genders; and the ways in which medieval authors understood and depicted disabilities. Deeply researched, this is a groundbreaking new look at medieval culture for a new generation of scholars"--

Author : Elizabeth James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135105471

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Women, Men and Eunuchs by Elizabeth James Pdf

The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both texts and images to give a wide-ranging picture of the place of women and Byzantine society and the perceptions of women held by that society. Women, Men and Eunuchs offers a unique and valuable exploration of the issue of gender in Byzantium, which will fascinate anyone interested in ancient and medieval history and gender studies.

Author : Michael Stewart,David Parnell,Conor Whately
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367143410

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The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium by Michael Stewart,David Parnell,Conor Whately Pdf

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the late antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early & Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire's long life.

Author : Michael Edward Stewart,David Alan Parnell,Conor Whately
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429633409

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The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium by Michael Edward Stewart,David Alan Parnell,Conor Whately Pdf

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; and Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early and Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire’s long life.

Author : Mark Masterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351135214

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Between Byzantine Men by Mark Masterson Pdf

The presence and importance of same-sex desire between men in the Byzantine Empire has been understudied. While John Boswell and others tried to open a conversation about desire between Byzantine men decades ago, the field reverted to emphasis on prohibition and an inability to read the evidence of same-sex desire between men in the sources. Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire challenges and transforms this situation by placing at centre stage Byzantine men's desiring relations with one another. This book foregrounds desire between men in and around the imperial court of the 900s. Analysis of Greek sources (many untranslated until now) and of material culture reveals a situation both more liberal than the medieval West and important for its rite of brother-making (adelphopoiesis), which was a precursor to today’s same-sex marriage. This book transforms our understanding of Byzantine elite men's culture and is an important addition to the history of sex and desire between men. Between Byzantine Men will appeal to scholars and general readers who are interested in Byzantine History, Society, and Culture, the History of Masculinity, and the History of Sexuality.

Author : Judith M. Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191667305

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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Judith M. Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. It contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and it not only serves as the major reference text in medieval and gender studies, but also provides an agenda for future new research.

Author : Bronwen Neil,Lynda Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 1315603330

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Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society by Bronwen Neil,Lynda Garland Pdf

Author : Dr Bronwen Neil,Professor Lynda Garland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409474494

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Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society by Dr Bronwen Neil,Professor Lynda Garland Pdf

Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared regularly in the past decade, similar studies of Byzantium have lagged behind. Masculine and feminine roles were not always as clearly defined as in the West, while eunuchs made up a 'third gender' in the imperial court. Social status indicators were also in a state of flux, as much linked to patronage networks as to wealth, as the Empire came under a series of external and internal pressures. This fluidity applied equally in ecclesiastical and secular spheres. The present collection of essays uncovers gender roles in the imperial family, in monastic institutions of both genders, in the Orthodox church, and in the nascent cult of Mary in the east. It puts the spotlight on flashpoints over a millennium of Byzantine rule, from Constantine the Great to Irene and the Palaiologoi, and covers a wide geographical range, from Byzantine Italy to Syria. The introduction frames the following nine chapters against recent scholarship and considers methodological issues in the study of gender and Byzantine society. Together these essays portray a surprising range of male and female experience in various Byzantine social institutions - whether religious, military, or imperial -- over the course of more than a millennium. The collection offers a provocative contrast to recent studies based on western medieval scholarship. Common themes that bind the collection into a coherent whole include specifically Byzantine expectations of gender among the social elite; the fluidity of social and sexual identities for Byzantine men and women within the church; and the specific challenges that strong individuals posed to the traditional limitations of gender within a hierarchical society dominated by Christian orthodoxy.

Author : Leonora Neville
Publisher : Past Imperfect
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1641890169

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Byzantine Gender by Leonora Neville Pdf

This lively and personal book explains some key aspects of howpeople of the Byzantine Empire perceived gender, enabling readers to understandByzantine society and its fascinating otherness more fully.

Author : Vern L. Bullough,James A. Brundage
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815336624

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Handbook of Medieval Sexuality by Vern L. Bullough,James A. Brundage Pdf

The subject of sexuality in the Middle Ages is examined here in 19 articles written specifically for this handbook. This volume seeks to offer a useful guide to the wealth of material and research that is available yet often overlooked.

Author : Stavroula Constantinou,Mati Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319960388

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Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture by Stavroula Constantinou,Mati Meyer Pdf

This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies while at the same time contributing to the emerging field of Byzantine emotion studies. It offers the reader an array of perspectives encompassing various sources and media, including historiography, hagiography, theological writings, epistolography, erotic literature, art objects, and illuminated manuscripts. The ten chapters cover a time span ranging from the early to the late Byzantine periods. This diversity is secured by an expanded and enriched exploration of the collection’s unifying theme of gendered emotions. The scope and breadth of the chapters also reflect the ways in which Byzantine gender and emotion have been studied thus far, while at the same time offering novel approaches that challenge established opinions in Byzantine studies.

Author : Judith M. Bennett,Judith Mackenzie Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199582174

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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Judith M. Bennett,Judith Mackenzie Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.

Author : Kevin P. Murphy,Jennifer M. Spear
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444343939

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Historicising Gender and Sexuality by Kevin P. Murphy,Jennifer M. Spear Pdf

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes