Maroula Perisanidi

Masculinity in Byzantium, C. 1000-1200

Scholars, Clerics and Violence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009499798
• ISBN-10: 1009499793
• Artikelnr.: 70253252

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.