Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium

Mati Meyer received her PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is a faculty member at the Open University of Israel. She has published extensively in articles and a monograph and co‑edited books on women, realia, emotions, corporeality, gender and sexuality, and biblical reception in Byzantine art, including Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture, edited by Mati Meyer and Stavroula Constantinou (2018) and Between Judaism and Christianity: Art‑Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel Neher, edited by Katrin Kogman‑Appel and Mati Meyer (2009).Charis Messis holds a PhD in Byzantine Studies from Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a habilitation from the Sorbonne University. He is now teaching Byzantine Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests concern Byzantine history and literature, especially the history of gender, along with other social and anthropological aspects of the Byzantine world. He is author and co-editor of several books and articles, including Storytelling in Byzantium: Narratological Approaches to Byzantine Texts and Images, edited by C. Messis, M. Mullett, and I. Nilsson (2018).

• Foreword: An Octogenarian WelcomeJudith HerrinAn Introduction: Gender and Sex(uality) in Byzantium?Mati Meyer and Charis MessisPart I. Gendering ThinkingChapter 1 Framing Gender I: Scientific and Religious DiscoursesCharis MessisChapter 2 Framing Gender II: Paradigms of Social GenderLynda GarlandChapter 3 Reading Gender VarianceRoland BetancourtPart II. Practicing Gender and SexualityChapter 4 Section Intro: Contextualizing Gender in Byzantine Society and PoliticsLeonora NevilleChapter 5 Practices of Religious and Social Constructions of GenderDamien Casey and Bronwen NeilsChapter 6 Gender and Family: Demography and ProcreationBéatrice CaseauChapter 7 Women and Trade from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century: Some Remarks Maria GerolymatouChapter 8 Gendering the Byzantine SpaceBrigitte PitarakisChapter 9 Gendering Cooking: The Case of MageirosIlias Anagnostakis and Maria LeontsiniChapter 10 Gender, Sexuality and Marriage in Late ByzantiumPatrick ViscusoChapter 11 Gender and Extramarital Sexuality: Adultery, Fornication, ProstitutionEleftheria PapagianniChapter 12 Gender and Transgressive Sexuality: The Case of Homosexual PracticesCharis MessisChapter 13 Gender and the Perception of the Ethnic ‘Other’Anthony KaldellisChapter 14 Judaism and ByzantiumJoshua David HoloPart III. Performing Gender and SexualityChapter 15 Section Intro: Configurations of Gender: Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality, Same-Sex Love in Text and Visual ArtsLeslie BrubakerChapter 16 Fleshing Out the Sexed and Gendered Body in ArtMati Meyer and Lora Ellen WebbChapter 17 Gendering the End of Time in Texts and ArtEirini AfentoulidouChapter 18 Gender (and Sexuality) in Byzantine LiteratureStratis PapaioannouChapter 19 Centaurs at the Wedding: The Desiring Gaze and VisualityDiliana AngelovaChapter 20 Gender in the Visual Culture of the Early and Middle Byzantine Imperial CourtAlicia WalkerChapter 21 Negotiating Gender Identity through the Visual ArtsMaria ParaniChapter 22 Gender and FashionBente KiilerichChapter 23 Emotions Gendered in Byzantine Narrative LiteratureStavroula ConstantinouChapter 24 Gendering Emotion in ArtHenry MaguireChapter 25 Singing and Performing Gender in the Sacred Space: Music and TheatrePrzemysław Marciniak and Andrew Walker WhiteRedefining Gender in Byzantium: Future Directions of ResearchLiz James