The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium

Mati Meyer received her PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is a faculty member at the Open University of Israel. She has published extensively in articles and a monograph and co‑edited books on women, realia, emotions, corporeality, gender and sexuality, and biblical reception in Byzantine art, including Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture, edited by Mati Meyer and Stavroula Constantinou (2018) and Between Judaism and Christianity: Art‑Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel Neher, edited by Katrin Kogman‑Appel and Mati Meyer (2009). Charis Messis holds a PhD in Byzantine Studies from Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a habilitation from the Sorbonne University. He is now teaching Byzantine Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests concern Byzantine history and literature, especially the history of gender, along with other social and anthropological aspects of the Byzantine world. He is author and co-editor of several books and articles, including Storytelling in Byzantium: Narratological Approaches to Byzantine Texts and Images, edited by C. Messis, M. Mullett, and I. Nilsson (2018).

Foreword: An Octogenarian Welcome

Judith Herrin

An Introduction: Gender and Sex(uality) in Byzantium?

Mati Meyer and Charis Messis

Part I. Gendering Thinking

Chapter 1 Framing Gender I: Scientific and Religious Discourses

Charis Messis

Chapter 2 Framing Gender II: Paradigms of Social Gender

Lynda Garland

Chapter 3 Reading Gender Variance

Roland Betancourt

Part II. Practicing Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 4 Section Intro: Contextualizing Gender in Byzantine Society and Politics

Leonora Neville

Chapter 5 Practices of Religious and Social Constructions of Gender

Damien Casey and Bronwen Neils

Chapter 6 Gender and Family: Demography and Procreation

Béatrice Caseau

Chapter 7 Women and Trade from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century: Some Remarks Maria Gerolymatou

Chapter 8 Gendering the Byzantine Space

Brigitte Pitarakis

Chapter 9 Gendering Cooking: The Case of Mageiros

Ilias Anagnostakis and Maria Leontsini

Chapter 10 Gender, Sexuality and Marriage in Late Byzantium

Patrick Viscuso

Chapter 11 Gender and Extramarital Sexuality: Adultery, Fornication, Prostitution

Eleftheria Papagianni

Chapter 12 Gender and Transgressive Sexuality: The Case of Homosexual Practices

Charis Messis

Chapter 13 Gender and the Perception of the Ethnic ‘Other’

Anthony Kaldellis

Chapter 14 Judaism and Byzantium

Joshua David Holo

Part III. Performing Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 15 Section Intro: Configurations of Gender: Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality, Same-Sex Love in Text and Visual Arts

Leslie Brubaker

Chapter 16 Fleshing Out the Sexed and Gendered Body in Art

Mati Meyer and Lora Ellen Webb

Chapter 17 Gendering the End of Time in Texts and Art

Eirini Afentoulidou

Chapter 18 Gender (and Sexuality) in Byzantine Literature

Stratis Papaioannou

Chapter 19 Centaurs at the Wedding: The Desiring Gaze and Visuality

Diliana Angelova

Chapter 20 Gender in the Visual Culture of the Early and Middle Byzantine Imperial Court

Alicia Walker

Chapter 21 Negotiating Gender Identity through the Visual Arts

Maria Parani

Chapter 22 Gender and Fashion

Bente Kiilerich

Chapter 23 Emotions Gendered in Byzantine Narrative Literature

Stavroula Constantinou

Chapter 24 Gendering Emotion in Art

Henry Maguire

Chapter 25 Singing and Performing Gender in the Sacred Space: Music and Theatre

Przemysław Marciniak and Andrew Walker White

Redefining Gender in Byzantium: Future Directions of Research

Liz James