Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World

Author:   Almut Höfert ,  Matthew Mesley ,  Serena Tolino
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781472453402


Pages:   360
Publication Date:   15 August 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Almut Höfert ,  Matthew Mesley ,  Serena Tolino
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781472453402


ISBN 10:   1472453409
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   15 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 ʿAbbasid Court [Nadia Maria El Cheikh] 3. Muʾnis al-Muẓaffar: 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]

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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.

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