LEADER 03156oam 2200553I 450 001 9910154575503321 005 20180306102347.0 010 $a1-351-94501-7 010 $a1-315-25809-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315258096 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758519 035 $a(OCoLC)973027162 035 $a(BIP)63372145 035 $a(BIP)47728428 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965706 100 $a20180706e20161999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDesire and denial in Byzantium $epapers from the thirty-first Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997 /$fedited by Liz James 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 225 1 $aSociety for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies ;$vPublication 6 300 $aFirst published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-86078-788-5 311 08$a1-351-94502-5 327 $asection 1. Love letters? -- section 2. Do as your father tells you -- section 3. Problems with bodies -- section 4. Fine manly bodies -- section 5. Conclusion. 330 $aThe papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex, love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium and Byzantine Studies, unlike celibacy, virginity and asceticism, which more readily spring to mind. In order to examine whether the balance between these two extremes needed redressing, desire and denial was adopted as the theme for this symposium. The papers in this volume, by a group of international scholars, explore the many different aspects of Byzantine perceptions towards their own humanity and the frailties of that humanity. Using evidence from archaeology, art history and literary texts, ranging from sermons to legal documents, these chapters reveal writings about love, both secular and religious; images of sexuality and sensuality; the law; and Byzantine attitudes to bodies and the senses. What the symposium illustrated is that the question of desires in the Byzantine world is significant, and that such desires can offer insights into Byzantine conceptions of their own world. 410 0$aPublications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ;$v6. 606 $aSex$zByzantine Empire$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aSex customs$zByzantine Empire$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aSex in literature$vCongresses 606 $aSex in art$vCongresses 615 0$aSex$xHistory 615 0$aSex customs$xHistory 615 0$aSex in literature 615 0$aSex in art 676 $a306.7/09495 701 $aJames$b Liz$0162872 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154575503321 996 $aDesire and denial in Byzantium$92091830 997 $aUNINA