Byzantine Intersectionality by Roland Betancourt - 9780691179452

Byzantine IntersectionalitySexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages\nAuthor(s): Roland Betancourt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691179452, 978-0691179452\nSynopsis\nA fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world\n\nWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized minorities. Roland Betancourt explores these issues in the context of the Byzantine Empire, using sources from late antiquity and early Christianity up to the early modern period. Highlighting nuanced and strikingly modern approaches by.