A cabinet of Byzantine curiosities : strange tales and surprising facts from the world's most orthodox empire / Anthony Kaldellis.
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Physical Description: | xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Marriage and the family
- Unorthodox sex
- Animals
- Food and dining
- Eunuchs
- Medical practice
- Science and technology
- War, by any means
- A menagerie of saints
- Heresy and scandal
- A gallery of rogues
- Inventive insults
- Punishments
- Foreign lands and people, 330-641 AD
- Foreigners and stereotypes, 641-1453 AD
- Latins, Franks, and Germans
- Disasters, mostly acts of God
- The emperors.