Beauty and the male body in Byzantium perceptions and representations in art and text

Teilw. zugl.: London, Univ., Diss.

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1. Verfasser: Chatzakē, Myrtō (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke u.a. Palgrave Macmillan 2009
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:Teilw. zugl.: London, Univ., Diss.
Beauty and the Beast looks into physical beauty in Byzantium, and reveals a quality with an unmistakable dark side. It is the curious dynamics of beauty in general, and male beauty in particular, that this book aims to unravel in a way that affects our perception of the (male) body in Byzantium and of beauty in the Byzantine world --Provided by publisher
Machine generated contents note: * Introduction * PART I: BEAUTIFUL BODIES * The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definition and Perception * Only Skin Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil * Empowering Beauty: Beauty and Power and Beauty as Power * The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Beauty, Martyrdom, Eloquence and Emotion * PART II: BEAUTY AND MASCULINITY * Age before Beauty * Angels and Eunuchs: the Beauty of Liminal Masculinity * The Fragile Beauty of Soldiers * Conclusion * Introduction * PART I: BEAUTIFUL BODIES * The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definition and Perception * Only Skin Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil * Empowering Beauty: Beauty and Power and Beauty as Power * The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Beauty, Martyrdom, Eloquence and Emotion * PART II: BEAUTY AND MASCULINITY * Age before Beauty * Angels and Eunuchs: the Beauty of Liminal Masculinity * The Fragile Beauty of Soldiers * Conclusion
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 196, [56] S.
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ISBN:9780230007154
978-0-230-00715-4