Hatzaki, Myrto

Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text - New York Palgrave Macmillan 2009 - 196p

includes index and biblioraphy

The byzantine ideal of beauty : definitions and perceptions............7 Only skin-deep: beauty and ugliness between good and evil......33 Beauty and power and beauty as power.......49 The beauty of broken bodies: pain, eloquence and emotions......66 Angels and eunuchs : the beauty of liminal masculinity........86 The fragile beauty of Soldiers......116

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