Description
| Summary: | The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for imp.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780226720166
0226720160
9780226720159
0226720152
1281126020
9781281126023 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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