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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Roland BetancourtPublish date:2023-01-31Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691243542ISBN-10:691243549UPC:9780691243542Book Category:Social Science, Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, History, Social HistoryBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCTYGBMQQZ

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691243542ISBN-10:691243549UPC:9780691243542Book Category:Social Science, Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, History, Social HistoryBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCTYGBMQQZ
Roland Betancourt is professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Performing the Gospels in Byzantium and Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium.
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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