Byzantine Intersectionality
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Byzantine Intersectionality

Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Byzantine Intersectionality

Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

About this book

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world

While the term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized minorities. Roland Betancourt explores these issues in the context of the Byzantine Empire, using sources from late antiquity and early Christianity up to the early modern period. Highlighting nuanced and strikingly modern approaches by medieval writers, philosophers, theologians, and doctors, Betancourt offers a new history of gender, sexuality, and race.

Betancourt weaves together art, literature, and an impressive array of texts to investigate depictions of sexual consent in images of the Virgin Mary, tactics of sexual shaming in the story of Empress Theodora, narratives of transgender monks, portrayals of same-gender desire in images of the Doubting Thomas, and stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in representations of the Ethiopian Eunuch. He also gathers evidence from medical manuals detailing everything from surgical practices for late terminations of pregnancy to save a mother's life to a host of procedures used to affirm a person's gender.

Showing how understandings of gender, sexuality, and race have long been enmeshed, Byzantine Intersectionality offers a groundbreaking look at the culture of the medieval world.

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Information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780691243542
9780691179452
eBook ISBN
9780691210889
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
History of Medieval Art
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Note on the Text
  6. Introduction
  7. I. The Virgin’s Consent
  8. II. Slut-Shaming an Empress
  9. III. Transgender Lives
  10. IV. Queer Sensations
  11. Color Plates
  12. V. The Ethiopian Eunuch
  13. Epilogue
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Photo Credits

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