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Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World Almut Hofert-Serena Tolino-Matthew Mesley 第1 版
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Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World
Almut Hofert-Serena Tolino-Matthew Mesley
This book explores a striking common feature of pre-modern ruling systems on a global scale: the participation of childless and celibate men as integral parts of the elites. In bringing court eunuchs and bishops together, this collection shows that the integration of men who were normatively or physically excluded from biological fatherhood offered pre-modern dynasties the potential to use different reproduction patterns. The shared focus on ruling eunuchs and bishops also reveals that these men had a specific position at the intersection of four fields: power, social dynamics, sacredness and gender/masculinities. The thirteen chapters present case studies on clerics in Medieval Europe and court eunuchs in the Middle East, Byzantium, India and China. They analyze how these men in their different frameworks acted as politicians, participated in social networks, provided religious authority, and discuss their masculinities. Taken together, this collection sheds light on the political arena before the modern nation-state excluded these unmarried men from the circles of political power.
424 pages, 1 black & white tables
| メディア | 書籍 Hardcover Book (ハードカバー付きの本) |
| リリース済み | 2017年8月15日 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472453402 |
| 出版社 | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| ページ数 | 360 |
| 寸法 | 242 × 164 × 28 mm · 718 g |
| 言語 | 英語 |
| 編集者 | Hofert, Almut |
| 編集者 | Mesley, Matthew (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 編集者 | Tolino, Serena (University of Hamburg, Germany) |
