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The Perfect Servant

Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium

By: Kathryn M. Ringrose

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The Perfect Servant

Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium

By: Kathryn M. Ringrose

The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for important roles in Byzantine life. Transcending conventional notions of male and female, eunuchs lived outside of normal patterns of procreation and inheritance and were assigned a unique capacity for mediating across social and spiritual boundaries. This allowed them to perform tasks from which prominent men and women were constrained, making them, in essence, perfect servants. Written with precision and meticulously researched, The Perfect Servant will immediately take its place as a major study on Byzantium and the history of gender.

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0226720160

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Families and Frontiers

Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies

By: Kathryn Edwards

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Families and Frontiers

Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies

By: Kathryn Edwards

As put forth by Edwards, the eastern duchy and the western county of Burgundy constituted a frontier society from the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 until 1540. Through detailed case studies and family reconstructions of elites from the Saône River valley, specifically the cities of Dijon, Dole, and Besançon, this book examines the social, cultural, political, and economic relationships of the Burgundians on a local level. Edwards successfully challenges the national models still frequently used in modern historiography and offers a provocative alternative to better understand this anomalous area and the creation of pre-modern regional identity.

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BRILL

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900447577X

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9789004475779

The Perfect Servant

Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium

By: Kathryn M. Ringrose

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The Perfect Servant

Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium

By: Kathryn M. Ringrose

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University of Chicago Press

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0226720160

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The Perfect Servant

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