This collection explores the ways in which groups of men in a variety of pre-modern cultures were excluded from legitimate or physical reproduction, yet still remained an important feature of political systems based on dynasties. In bringing eunuchs and bishops into a common focus, this volume offers a new global perspective, which draws parallels
This collection explores the ways in which groups of men in a variety of pre-modern cultures were excluded from legitimate or physical reproduction, yet still remained an important feature of political systems based on dynasties. In bringing eunuchs and bishops into a common focus, this volume offers a new global perspective, which draws parallels
Almut Höfert is Professor for Medieval Transcultural History at the University of Zurich. Matthew M. Mesley is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. Serena Tolino is Junior Professor for Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg.
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Introduction: Celibate and Childless Men Placed into a Shared Focus: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops Between the Intersections of Power, Networks, Sacredness and Gender [Almut Höfert] Part 1: Bishops and Eunuchs as Parts of the Ruling Elites 1. The Bishop in the Latin West 600-1100 [Julia Barrow] 2. Guarding the Harem, Protecting the State: Eunuchs in a Fourth/Tenth Century ¿Abbasid Court [Nadia Maria El Cheikh] 3. Münis al-Müaffar: An Exceptional Eunuch [Hugh Kennedy] 4. Harem and Eunuchs: Liminality and Networks of Mughal Authority [Ruby Lal] Part 2: Networks and Kinships 5. Celibate, But Not Childless: Eunuch Military Dynasticism in Medieval China [Michael Hoeckelmann] 6. Spiritual Heirs and Families: Episcopal Relatives in Early Medieval Francia [Rachel Stone] 7. Eunuchs and the East India Company in North India [Jessica Hinchy] Part 3: Religious Authority and Sacredness 8. Physical and Symbolic Castration and the Holy Eunuch in Late Antiquity, Third to Sixth Centuries CE [Mathew Kuefler] 9. Monastic Superiority, Episcopal Authority and Masculinity in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum [Matthew M. Mesley] 10. The Chief Harem Eunuch of the Ottoman Empire: Servant of the Sultan, Servant of the Prophet [Jane Hathaway] Part 4: Gender and Masculinities 11. Byzantine Court Eunuchs and the Macedonian Dynastie (867-1056): Family, Power and Gender [Shaun Tougher] 12. Eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire: Ambiguities, Gender and Sacredness [Serena Tolino]
Introduction: Celibate and Childless Men Placed into a Shared Focus: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops Between the Intersections of Power, Networks, Sacredness and Gender [Almut Höfert] Part 1: Bishops and Eunuchs as Parts of the Ruling Elites 1. The Bishop in the Latin West 600-1100 [Julia Barrow] 2. Guarding the Harem, Protecting the State: Eunuchs in a Fourth/Tenth Century ¿Abbasid Court [Nadia Maria El Cheikh] 3. Münis al-Müaffar: An Exceptional Eunuch [Hugh Kennedy] 4. Harem and Eunuchs: Liminality and Networks of Mughal Authority [Ruby Lal] Part 2: Networks and Kinships 5. Celibate, But Not Childless: Eunuch Military Dynasticism in Medieval China [Michael Hoeckelmann] 6. Spiritual Heirs and Families: Episcopal Relatives in Early Medieval Francia [Rachel Stone] 7. Eunuchs and the East India Company in North India [Jessica Hinchy] Part 3: Religious Authority and Sacredness 8. Physical and Symbolic Castration and the Holy Eunuch in Late Antiquity, Third to Sixth Centuries CE [Mathew Kuefler] 9. Monastic Superiority, Episcopal Authority and Masculinity in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum [Matthew M. Mesley] 10. The Chief Harem Eunuch of the Ottoman Empire: Servant of the Sultan, Servant of the Prophet [Jane Hathaway] Part 4: Gender and Masculinities 11. Byzantine Court Eunuchs and the Macedonian Dynastie (867-1056): Family, Power and Gender [Shaun Tougher] 12. Eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire: Ambiguities, Gender and Sacredness [Serena Tolino]
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