Women, Men and Eunuchs, James, Elizabeth

Автор: James, Elizabeth
Название: Women, Men and Eunuchs
ISBN: 0415146860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415146869
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Tougher Shaun
Название: The Roman Castrati: Eunuchs in the Roman Empire
ISBN: 1350188239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350188235
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Eunuchs tend to be associated with eastern courts, popularly perceived as harem personnel. However, the Roman empire was also distinguished by eunuchs – they existed as slaves, court officials, religious figures and free men. This book is the first to be devoted to the range of Roman eunuchs. Across seven chapters (spanning the third century BC to the sixth century AD), Shaun Tougher examines the history of Roman eunuchs, focusing on key texts and specific individuals. Subjects met include the Galli (the self-castrating devotees of the goddess the Great Mother), Terence’s comedy The Eunuch (the earliest surviving Latin text to use the word ‘eunuch’), Sporus and Earinus the eunuch favourites of the emperors Nero and Domitian, the ‘Ethiopian eunuch’ of the Acts of the Apostles (an early convert to Christianity), Favorinus of Arles (a superstar intersex philosopher), the Grand Chamberlain Eutropius (the only eunuch ever to be consul), and Narses the eunuch general who defeated the Ostrogoths and restored Italy to Roman rule. A key theme of the chapters is gender, inescapable when studying castrated males. Ultimately this book is as much about the eunuch in the Roman imagination as it is the reality of the eunuch in the Roman empire.

Автор: Sheng-Wei Wang
Название: The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He
ISBN: 9888491660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789888491667
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Suggested navigational routes, timelines and evidence relating to the seventh (and last) voyage of Admiral Zheng He have been extracted for the first time, from a 1597 volume entitled An Account of the Western World Voyage of the San Bao Eunuch by Luo Maodeng. From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty’s tributary system, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di and Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji ordered eunuch Zheng He to lead giant fleets across the seas. But soon after Zheng He’s seventh and last voyage in the 1430s, the Ming emperors put an end to this activity and ordered all records of previous voyages to be destroyed. Chinese writer Luo Maodeng, knowing the history of some of these voyages, wished to preserve a record of them, but, conscious of the possible penalty, decided to record the facts ‘under a veil’, in his 1597 novel. This volume shows the derivation of the complete trans-Atlantic navigational routes and timelines of that last journey, and presents the idea that Zheng He’s last expedition plausibly reached the ancient American Indian city, Cahokia, in the U.S. central Mississippi Valley in late autumn, 1433, long before Christopher Columbus set foot for the first time in the Americas. It supports the hotly debated view that Ming Chinese sailors and ships reached farther than previously accepted in modern times and calls for further research, bridging the gap in our understanding of ancient China-America history and the era before the Age of Discovery.

Автор: Hathaway, Jane (ohio State University)
Название: The chief eunuch of ottoman harem
ISBN: 1107108292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107108295
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Eunuchs were a common feature of virtually all Islamic empires yet remain mysterious to modern scholars. Using a wide range of primary sources, Jane Hathaway analyzes the origins of the Chief of the African eunuchs and traces the evolution of this powerful official from the late sixteenth through the early twentieth century.

Автор: Crawford, Katherine
Название: Eunuchs and Castrati
ISBN: 036790361X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367903619
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book asks what influence such fascination had on the development and delineation of modern ideas around sexuality and physical impairment.