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