Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium: Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text

By Myrto Hatzaki

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Illustration Sources Introduction The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definitions and Perceptions Only Skin Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil Beauty and Power and Beauty as Power The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Pain, Eloquence and Emotion Angels and Eunuchs; the Beauty of Liminal Masculinity The Fragile Beauty of Soldiers Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230007155
• ISBN13: 9780230007154
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"