Machine generated contents note: * Introduction * PART I: BEAUTIFUL BODIES * The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definition and Perception * Only Skin Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil * Empowering Beauty: Beauty and Power and Beauty as Power * The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Beauty, Martyrdom, Eloquence and Emotion * PART II: BEAUTY AND MASCULINITY * Age before Beauty * Angels and Eunuchs: the Beauty of Liminal Masculinity * The Fragile Beauty of Soldiers * Conclusion * Introduction * PART I: BEAUTIFUL BODIES * The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definition and Perception * Only Skin Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil * Empowering Beauty: Beauty and Power and Beauty as Power * The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Beauty, Martyrdom, Eloquence and Emotion * PART II: BEAUTY AND MASCULINITY * Age before Beauty * Angels and Eunuchs: the Beauty of Liminal Masculinity * The Fragile Beauty of Soldiers * Conclusion.
Summary:
"Beauty and the Beast looks into physical beauty in Byzantium, and reveals a quality with an unmistakable dark side. It is the curious dynamics of beauty in general, and male beauty in particular, that this book aims to unravel in a way that affects our perception of the (male) body in Byzantium and of beauty in the Byzantine world"--Provided by publisher.
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