| Description |
1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies |
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Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- A Note on Transliteration of Greek (and Related Matters) -- A Note on the End Notes -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Prelude: Letter 44 of Nikephoros Ouranos -- What This Book Does and How It Does It -- A Christian Empire -- Letter 26 of Nikephoros Ouranos -- A Comparison -- Civil Law -- Canon Law/Penitentials -- Men in the Life of Mary the Younger -- Prospect -- 1 Eroticism and Desire in Epistolography -- How to Read Byzantine Epistolography |
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Letters of Theodoros Daphnopates -- Letter 18 -- Letter 17 -- Desire's Dreams and Visions in Letters of an Emperor and His Friend -- Dreams and Visions in the Suda -- A Letter from Constantine -- A Letter from Theodoros -- Two Letters of Symeon the Logothete -- Conclusion -- 2 Histories of Masculine Beauty and Desire: The Case of Emperor Basil I -- Historiographies from the Mid-Tenth Century -- Narrative of the Rise of Basil I -- Summary of Things to Come -- Amorous Language -- Theophilitzes and Hetaireiai -- The Emperor's Horse -- Grappling and a Naked Scourging |
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Basilikinos/Basiliskianos: Handsome Competition -- Eagle and Ganymede -- Male Backsides and Romans -- Conclusion -- 3 Framing the Brotherhoods of Emperor Basil I -- Basil's Brotherhoods in the Historiographies -- Nicholas -- John -- Other Brothers -- Liturgies for the Adelphopoiesis Ritual -- A Tenth-Century Prayer: "A Thing Flowery and Much-desired by Us, The Sweet Scent of Love" -- Framing "A Thing Flowery and Much-desired by Us, The Sweet Scent of Love" -- Scripture -- Court Ceremonial and Epistolography -- Conclusion -- Appendix of Prayers -- 4 Revisiting the Bachelorhood of Emperor Basil II |
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Introduction -- The State of the Question of Basil's Bachelorhood -- Symeon the New Theologian's Evidence -- Basil II as Symeon's Referent -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Major Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351135214 |
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135113521X |
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