Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture
This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies while at the same time contributing to the emerging...
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| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Σειρά: | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Forward; David Konstan
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Towards an Approach to Gendered Emotions in Byzantine Culture: An Introduction; Mati Meyer
- PART I
- 2. 'Emotioning' Gender: Plotting the Male and the Female in Byzantine Greek Passions and Lives of Holy Couples; Andria Andreou
- 3. Pity and Lamentation in the Authorial Personae of John Kaminiates and Anna Komnene; Leonora Neville
- 4. Gendering Grief: Emotional Eunuchs - Consoling Constantine the Paphlagonian; Shaun Tougher
- PART II
- 5. Justifiably Angry or Simply Angry?: Empresses in Byzantine Society; Andriani Georgiou
- 6. Emotions on Stage: The 'Manly' Woman Martyr in the Menologion of Basil II; Valentina Cantone
- PART III
- 7. Eros as Passion, Affection and Nature: Gendered Perceptions of Erotic Emotion in Byzantium; Charis Messis and Ingela Nilsson
- 8. 'Weaver of Tales': The Veroli Box and the Power of Eros in Byzantium; Diliana Angelova
- 9. Stirring up Sundry Emotions in the Byzantine Illuminated Book: Reflections on the Female Body; Mati Meyer
- CONCLUSIONS
- 10. Gendered Emotions and Affective Genders: A Response; Stavroula Constantinou.
