Book 2009

Beauty and the male body in Byzantium

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Published: 2009

Byzantine Aesthetics
Masculine beauty (Aesthetics)
Byzantine empire, civilization
Masculinity
Beauty, personal
Byzantine Art
Themes, motives
Byzantine literature

Beauty and the Beast looks into physical beauty in Byzantium, and reveals a quality with an unmistakable dark side. It is the curious dynamics of beauty in general, and male beauty in particular, that this book aims to unravel in a way that affects our perception of the (male) body in Byzantium and of beauty in the Byzantine world --Provided by publisher.