Celibate and Childless Men in Power (eBook, PDF)

Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World
Redaktion: Höfert, Almut; Tolino, Serena; Mesley, Matthew

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores the ways in which groups of men in a variety of pre-modern cultures were excluded from legitimate or physical reproduction, yet still remained an important feature of political systems based on dynasties. In bringing eunuchs and bishops into a common focus, this volume offers a new global perspective, which draws parallels between different chronological and geographical areas, while still recognising their unique and distinctive features. It also explores the ways in which they carved out an institutional space in which they wielded power over both men and women alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317182382
• Artikelnr.: 49040719

Autorenporträt

Almut Höfert is Professor for Medieval Transcultural History at the University of Zurich. Matthew M. Mesley is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. Serena Tolino is Junior Professor for Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Celibate and Childless Men Placed into a Shared Focus: Ruling
Eunuchs and Bishops Between the Intersections of Power, Networks,
Sacredness and Gender
[Almut Höfert]
Part 1: Bishops and Eunuchs as Parts of the Ruling Elites
1. The Bishop in the Latin West 600-1100
[Julia Barrow]
2. Guarding the Harem, Protecting the State: Eunuchs in a Fourth/Tenth
Century ¿Abbasid Court
[Nadia Maria El Cheikh]
3. Münis al-Müaffar: An Exceptional Eunuch
[Hugh Kennedy]
4. Harem and Eunuchs: Liminality and Networks of Mughal Authority
[Ruby Lal]
Part 2: Networks and Kinships
5. Celibate, But Not Childless: Eunuch Military Dynasticism in Medieval
China
[Michael Hoeckelmann]
6. Spiritual Heirs and Families: Episcopal Relatives in Early Medieval
Francia
[Rachel Stone]
7. Eunuchs and the East India Company in North India
[Jessica Hinchy]
Part 3: Religious Authority and Sacredness
8. Physical and Symbolic Castration and the Holy Eunuch in Late Antiquity,
Third to Sixth Centuries CE
[Mathew Kuefler]
9. Monastic Superiority, Episcopal Authority and Masculinity in Caesarius
of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum
[Matthew M. Mesley]
10. The Chief Harem Eunuch of the Ottoman Empire: Servant of the Sultan,
Servant of the Prophet
[Jane Hathaway]
Part 4: Gender and Masculinities
11. Byzantine Court Eunuchs and the Macedonian Dynastie (867-1056): Family,
Power and Gender
[Shaun Tougher]
12. Eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire: Ambiguities, Gender and Sacredness
[Serena Tolino]
13. Under Pressure. Secular-Mendicant Polemics and the Construction of
Chaste Masculinity Within the Thirteenth-Century Latin Church
[Sita Steckel and Stephanie Kluge]