Monastic Desires

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Monastic Desires

Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople

Krueger, Derek

Cambridge University Press

03/2026

356

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Inglês

9781009648332

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1. Loving God: the queer fantasies of Symeon the New Theologian; 2. The homophobia of George the Monk: an archeology of opprobrium; 3. The edge of yearning: deferred delights in Symeon's Hymns; 4. Homoeroticism and Byzantine monastic life: contexts and queries; 5. Andromania: homosexual panic in tenth-century hagiography; 6. The repenting sodomite: from penitential canons to the life of Nephon; 7. Of semen and tears: Niketas Stethatos on bodies and boundaries; 8. Icons of desire, bodies of devotion: Niketas Stethatos and the life of Symeon the New Theologian;Coda: glancing back at Sodom.