The hidden truths about sexuality and gender in the medieval world: Big Brains podcast with Roland Betancourt
Scholar of Byzantine era uncovers the lost history about queer and trans lives in the Middle Ages
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The Fascinating History of Intersectionality in the Medieval World
In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020), Roland Betancourt reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized minorities. Betancourt explores these issues in the context of the Byzantine Empi...
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