Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium: Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text

Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium: Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text
ISBN-10
0230245307
ISBN-13
9780230245303
Category
History
Pages
196
Language
English
Published
2009-10-29
Publisher
Springer
Author
M. Hatzaki

Description

A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world.

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