Byzantine Intersectionality (eBook)

Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

Roland Betancourt (Autor)

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2020
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21088-9 (ISBN)

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A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term "e;intersectionality"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color + 50 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Acts of the apostles • adultery • Allusion • anchorite • annunciation • Anthropomorphism • Asceticism • Averil Cameron • Basil II • Basil of Caesarea • Birth Control • Byzantine art • Byzantine Matters • Byzantium • castration • chastity • Christianity • Christian monasticism • Cis • Conflation • consent • Constantinople • Cross-dressing • cruelty • dark skin • doubting thomas • effeminacy • elagabalus • Empress Theodora • eroticism • Ethiopian Eunuch • Eunuch • eunuchs • femininity • Feminism • fornication • Gender • gender affirmation • gender fluid • gender fluidity • Gender identity • Gender nonconforming • Gender nonconformity • Genderqueer • Gender Role • Gender stereotypes • Gynecomastia • Historiography • homily • Hosios Loukas • Iconography • Incest • Incredulity of Thomas • Indication (medicine) • infanticide • Intersectionality • Invective • John Chrysostom • John Malalas • Late Antiquity • Literature • lori allen • mary of egypt • Masculinity • Mastectomy • Maximus the Confessor • Medieval • Miscarriage • Monastery • Mount Athos • narrative • narthex • Nemesius • nipple • Oppression • Parchment • Persecution • Physician • piety • Precedent • pregnancy termination • Prejudice • primary source • procession • Proclus of Constantinople • Procopius • Promiscuity • Prostitution • Queer • queer desire • queer sexuality • Queer Theory • Race • race in the medieval world • racialized difference • racialized stereotypes • Racism • Rape Culture • religious text • Reproductive rights • rhetoric • same-gender desire • same-sex desire • saracen • secret history • Sexual assault • Sexual consent • sexual desire • Sexual Desire (book) • Sexual Identity • sexual intercourse • Sexuality • Sex Worker • slut shaming • slut-shaming • sodomy • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Symeon the New Theologian • Text (literary theory) • Theology • The Other Hand • Theotokos • The Philosopher • The Various • Trans • Transgender • transgender history • transgender monks • transvestism • treatise • Vatican City • virginity • Virgin Mary • white people • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21088-8 / 0691210888
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21088-9 / 9780691210889