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Autore |
Ringrose Kathryn M |
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Titolo |
The perfect servant : eunuchs and the social construction of gender in Byzantium / / Kathryn M. Ringrose |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-12602-0 |
9786611126025 |
0-226-72016-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Eunuchs - Byzantine Empire |
Sex role - Byzantine Empire |
Byzantine Empire Civilization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-285) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Spelling Conventions for Greek Names -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Eunuchs of Byzantium: Context and Definition -- Part I. Gender as Social Construct -- Part II. Becoming Protagonists -- Appendix: Spelling Equivalents, Traditional and Reformed -- Frequently Used Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for important roles in Byzantine life. Transcending conventional notions of male and female, eunuchs lived outside of normal patterns of procreation and inheritance and were assigned a unique capacity for mediating across social and spiritual boundaries. This allowed them to perform tasks |
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