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 field of Byzantine emotion studies. It offers the reader an array of perspectives encompassing various sources and media, including historiography, hagiography, theological writings, epistolography, erotic literature, art objects, and illuminated manuscripts. The ten chapters cover a time span ranging from the early to the late Byzantine periods. This diversity is secured by an expanded and enriched exploration of the collection’s unifying theme of gendered emotions. The scope and breadth of the chapters also reflect the ways in which Byzantine gender and emotion have been studied thus far, while at the same time offering novel approaches that challenge established opinions in Byzantine studies.
Author(s): Stavroula Constantinou (ed.), Mati Meyer (ed.)
Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Language: English
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Tags: Medieval Europe - History and culture; Byzantium - History and culture
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Towards an Approach to Gendered Emotions in Byzantine Culture: An Introduction (Mati Meyer)....Pages 3-32
Front Matter ....Pages 33-33
‘Emotioning’ Gender: Plotting the Male and the Female in Byzantine Greek Passions and Lives of Holy Couples (Andria Andreou)....Pages 35-63
Pity and Lamentation in the Authorial Personae of John Kaminiates and Anna Komnene (Leonora Neville)....Pages 65-92
Gendering Grief: Emotional Eunuchs—Consoling Constantine the Paphlagonian (Shaun Tougher)....Pages 93-107
Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
Empresses in Byzantine Society: Justifiably Angry or Simply Angry? (Andriani Georgiou)....Pages 111-140
Emotions on Stage: The ‘Manly’ Woman Martyr in the Menologion of Basil II (Valentina Cantone)....Pages 141-155
Front Matter ....Pages 157-157
Eros as Passion, Affection and Nature: Gendered Perceptions of Erotic Emotion in Byzantium (Charis Messis, Ingela Nilsson)....Pages 159-190
‘Weaver of Tales’: The Veroli Box and the Power of Eros in Byzantium (Diliana Angelova)....Pages 191-244
Stirring up Sundry Emotions in the Byzantine Illuminated Book: Reflections on the Female Body (Mati Meyer)....Pages 245-279
Front Matter ....Pages 281-281
Gendered Emotions and Affective Genders: A Response (Stavroula Constantinou)....Pages 283-315
Back Matter ....Pages 317-327
