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Byzantine Intersectionality Byzantine Intersectionality Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages Roland Betancourt Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Copyright © 2020 by Princeton University Press Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to [email protected]. Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press.princeton.edu Jacket illustrations: Details of figures 4.6, 5.7, 4.8, 4.2, 1.2, 2.1, 5.6, 0.4, 0.1, 5.9, and 5.14 (from top left to bottom right) All Rights Reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Betancourt, Roland, author. Title: Byzantine intersectionality : sexuality, gender, and race in the Middle Ages / Roland Betancourt. Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020010460 (print) | LCCN 2020010461 (ebook) | ISBN 9780691179452 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780691210889 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Byzantine Empire—Social life and customs. | Intersectionality (Sociology)—Byzantine Empire. Classification: LCC DF531 .B48 2020 (print) | LCC DF531 (ebook) | DDC 949.5/02—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010460 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010461 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been designed and composed in Minion Pro by Chris Crochetière, BW&A Books, Inc. Jacket design by Julie Allred. Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, Monica Lewinsky, Chelsea Manning, Matthew Shepard, and Marsha P. Johnson I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, that woman . . . When this happened to me seventeen years ago, there was no name for it. Now we call it cyberbullying and online harassment. —Monica Lewinsky Contents Note on the Text xi Introduction 1 I The Virgin’s Consent 19 II Slut-Shaming an Empress 59 III Transgender Lives 89 IV Queer Sensations 121 V The Ethiopian Eunuch 161 Epilogue 205 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 213 Bibliography 243 Index 263 Photo Credits 273
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