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

A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty re...

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Main Author:	Hatzaki, Myrto (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Subjects:	History. Ancient History. Clinical Psychology. European History. History of Medieval Europe. Nature Conservation. World History, Global and Transnational History. Clinical psychology. History, Ancient. Nature conservation. World history. Europe > History-476-1492. Europe > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book