Parution: Leonora Neville “Byzantine Gender”
Parution: “Byzantine Gender“, écrit par Leonora Neville, publié par Arc Humanities Press, date de publication 31 – 05 – 2019 Why were virtuous Byzantine women described as manly? Why were boys’ bodies thought to be closer in constitution to those of women than adult men? Did Byzantines think eunuchs were men? This lively and personal book explains some key aspects of how people of the Medieval Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) conceived of men and women,...