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Byzantine Bodies

Gender and Sexuality in the Christian East

Av Larisa Orlov Vilimonović, Shaun Tougher

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1266 kr

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This book examines how gender, sexuality and embodiment were conceptualised and represented in Byzantine culture. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, it explores the body as a site where moral value, social hierarchy and theological meaning were negotiated.The volume brings together studies of historiography, rhetoric, visual culture, hagiography and monastic discourse, addressing figures of differing status, from imperial rulers to saints and eunuchs. Its chapters illuminate how Byzantine society understood the body as malleable, legible and embedded within Christian moral and cosmological frameworks. Rather than treating gender and sexuality primarily as questions of identity, the volume shows how bodies operated within specific social, religious and textual contexts. Taken together, the essays offer a nuanced account of how desire, beauty, asceticism and authority were articulated through embodied forms, and invite a reconsideration of how modern scholarship approaches gender and sexuality in Byzantium.
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Larisa Orlov Vilimonović is Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Belgrade.She holds a PhD in Byzantine History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, embodiment and emotons in Byzantine culture. She is the author of Structure and Features of Anna Komnene’s Alexiad: Emergence of a Personal History (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). Shaun Tougher is Professor of Late Roman and Byzantine History at Cardiff University. He has a BA from Queen’s University Belfast and a PhD from the University of St Andrews. He works especially on dynastic history (primarily the Constantinian and Macedonian dynasties) and on gender and society (notably eunuchs, but also imperial women and questions of masculinity). His publications include The Reign of Leo VI (886-912) (Leiden, 1997), Julian the Apostate (Edinburgh, 2007), The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (London and New York, 2008), and The Roman Castrati: Eunuchs in the Roman Empire (London and New York, 2021).

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Attending especially to marginal bodies in the medieval Christian East, these essays read gender and desire in materiality and doing, grounding abstractions of construction and performance.

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