Beschreibung:
"Exploring the role of learning, violence and religious status in the construction of Byzantine masculinities, this book is valuable for scholars and students of gender, posthumanism and disability in any period as well as of Byzantine and medieval history"--
1. Michael Psellos: writing like a man, 'throwing like a girl'; 2. Ioannes Tzetzes: a scholar and his animals; 3. Gregorios Antiochos: disabled bodies and desired becomings; 4. Hunting Churchmen; 5. Fighting the good fight.