Kathryn M Ringrose (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1999 Routledge hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover '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.' Contents: Preface Section I Love Letters? 1. Margaret Mullett: From Byzantium, with love 2. Mary B. Cunningham: 'Shutting the gates of the soul': spiritual treatises on resisting the passions Section II Do as your Father tells you 3. Kathy L. Gaca: The sexual and social dangers of Pornai in the Septuagint Greek stratum of patristic Christian thought 4. Aideen Hartney: Manly women and womanly men: the subintroductae and John Chrysostom 5. Joseph A. Munitiz: Anastasios of Sinai's teaching on body and soul 6. Dirk Krausmuller: Divine sex: Patriarch Methodios's concept of virginity 7. Peter Hatlie: The city a desert: Theodore of Stoudios on porneia Section III Problems with Bodies 8. Bernard Stolte: Desires denied: marriage, adultery and divorce in early Byzantine law 9. Antony Eastmond: Body vs. column: the cults of St Symeon Stylites 10. Beatrice Caseau: Christian bodies: the senses and early Byzantine Christianity 11. Charles Barber: Writing on the body: memory, desire, and the holy in iconoclasm Section IV Fine Manly Bodies 12. Kathryn M. Ringrose: Passing the test of sanctity: denial of sexuality and involuntary castration 13. Dion C. Smythe: In denial: same-sex desire in Byzantium 14. Shaun Tougher: Michael III and Basil the Macedonian: just good friends? Section V Byzantine Erotica 15. Marc Lauxtermann: Ninth-century classicism and the erotic muse 16. John Hanson: Erotic imagery on Byzantine ivory caskets 17. Barbara Zeitler: Ostentatio genitalium: displays of nudity in Byzantium Section VI Conclusion 18. Averil Cameron: Desire in Byzantium - the Ought and the Is.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover 2004, 1st edition. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Soft crease to back dj. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (295 pages) Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

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