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Desire and Denial in Byzantium - Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Desire and Denial in Byzantium - Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
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The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at
the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex,
love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium
and Byzantine Studies, unlike celibacy, virginity and asceticism,
which more readily spring to mind. In order to examine whether the
balance between these two extremes needed redressing, desire and
denial was adopted as the theme for this symposium. 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. What the
symposium illustrated is that the question of desires in the
Byzantine world is significant, and that such desires can offer
insights into Byzantine conceptions of their own world.
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