Book Review: Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt

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Abstract

In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages, Roland Betancourt offers a new study that challenges the way that scholars have historically viewed Byzantine society and culture, using the methodology of intersectionality to uncover marginalised identities and recover medieval conversations around sexual and reproductive consent, sexual shaming and bullying, sexual attraction and desire, trans and nonbinary gender identities and the depiction of racialised minorities. This is an exciting and radical new project with an ethical dimension and urgency, writes Meaghan Allen, that seeks to illuminate forgotten figures and lived experiences that ripple through into our present moment.
Original languageEnglish
TypeLSE Review of Books blog
Media of outputBlog website
PublisherLSE Review of Books
Place of PublicationOnline
Publication statusPublished - 18 Feb 2021

Publication series

NameLondon School of Economics Review of Books
PublisherLondon School of Economics and Political Science

Keywords

  • Byzantine
  • Intersectionality
  • Middle Ages
  • race and gender
  • History
  • Book Review

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