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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 List of Abbreviations 9 List of Plates 10 Preface 12 Section I: Love Letters? 14 1. From Byzantium, with love 16 2. 'Shutting the gates of the soul': spiritual treatises on resisting the passions 36 Section II: Do as your Father tells you 46 3. The sexual and social dangers of Pornai in the Septuagint Greek stratum of patristic Christain Greek thought 48 4. Manly women and womanly men: the subintroductae and John Chrysostom 54 5. Anastasios of Sinai's teaching on body and soul 62 6. Divine sex: Patriarch Methodios's concept of virginity 70 7. The city a desert: Theodore of Stoudios on porneia 80 Section III: Problems with Bodies 88 8. Desires denied: marriage, adultery and divorce in early Byzantine law 90 9. Body vs. column: the cults of St Symeon Stylites 100 10. Christian bodies: the senses and early Byzantine Christianity 114 11. Writing on the body: memory, desire, and the holy in iconoclasm 124 Section IV: Fine Manly Bodies 134 12. Passing the test of sanctity: denial of sexuality and involuntary castration 136 13. In denial: same-sex desire in Byzantium 152 14. Michael III and Basil the Macedonia

Published

2019

Language

EN