A cabinet of Byzantine curiosities : strange tales and surprising facts from history's most orthodox empire /

• Main Author: Καλδέλλης, Αντώνιος Εμμ., 1971- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Subjects: Ορθόδοξη Ανατολική Εκκλησία; Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία > Κοινωνική ζωή και έθιμα.; Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία > Κοινωνικές συνθήκες.; Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία > Εξωτερικές σχέσεις

Table of Contents:

• Marriage and the family
• Unorthodox sex
• Animals
• Food and dining
• Eunuchs
• Medical practice
• Science and technology
• War, by any means
• A menagerie of saints
• Heresy and scandal
• A gallery of rogues
• Inventive insults
• Punishments
• Foreign lands and people, 330-641 AD
• Foreigners and stereotypes, 641-1453 AD
• Latins, Franks, and Germans
• Disasters, mostly acts of God
• The emperors.