Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

Byzantine Intersectionality is a groundbreaking exploration of marginalized identities in medieval thought and visual culture.

This comprehensive study reveals the fascinating conversations around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and racialized minorities in the Byzantine Empire.

Through a meticulous analysis of art, literature, and an impressive array of texts, Betancourt uncovers nuanced and strikingly modern approaches by medieval writers, philosophers, theologians, and doctors.

This book offers a new history of gender, sexuality, and race, shedding light on the enmeshed understandings of these categories in the culture of the medieval world.

With its impressive array of sources and engaging narrative style, Byzantine Intersectionality is an essential read for anyone interested in the intersectional history of gender, sexuality, and race.