Emotions and gender in Byzantine culture. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stavroula Constantinou, Mati Meyer, editors.
• Editors: Constantinou, Stavroula; Meyer, Mati
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 949.5; History; Emotions -- Social aspects -- Byzantine Empire; Sex -- Byzantine Empire; HISTORY / Europe / General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Art -- Criticism & Theory; History -- Social History; History -- Ancient -- General; Gender studies, gender groups; Art forms; Social & cultural history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Gender identity; Fine arts; History, Ancient; History -- Europe -- General; European history; Byzantine Empire -- Civilization; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319960388; 3319960385
• Related ISBNs: 9783319960371
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 25, 2018).
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