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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    November 2024
    November 2024
    ISBN:
    9781009499781
    9781009499798
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009499781
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.44kg, 206 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies
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    What 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.

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