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OverviewWhat does it mean to be a man? What makes one effeminate or manly? What renders a man 'Byzantine'? Drawing from theories of gender, posthumanism and disability, this book explores the role of learning, violence and animals in the construction of Byzantine masculinities. It foregrounds scholars and clerics, two groups who negotiated the hegemonic ideal of male violence in contrasting and unexpected ways. By flaunting their learning, scholars accumulated enough masculine capital to present more “feminine” emotional dispositions and to reject hunting and fighting without compromising their masculinity. Clerics often appear less peaceable. Some were deposed for fighting, while many others seem to have abandoned their roles to pursue warfare, demonstrating the fluidity of religious and gender identity. For both clerics and scholars, much of this gender-work depended on animals, whose entanglements with humans ranged from domination to mutual transformation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maroula Perisanidi (University of Leeds)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009499798ISBN 10: 1009499793 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 30 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of Contents1. 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationMAROULA 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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