Beauty and the male body in Byzantium: perceptions and representations in art and text
Hatzaki, Myrto
A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with anunmistakable 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. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Illustration Sources - Introduction - The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definitions and Perceptions - Only Skin Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil - Beauty and Power andBeauty as Power - The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Pain, Eloquence and Emotion - Angels and Eunuchs; the Beauty of Liminal Masculinity - The Fragile Beauty of Soldiers - Conclusion - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-00715-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 29/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés