Plenary Session: Byzantine Diversities

This paper seeks to reassess current approaches to gender studies in Byzantium, particularly the study of masculinity. While research on women and eunuchs has long been established in Byzantine Studies – often grounded in social and economic history and focused on lived practices – the study of men as gendered beings has developed more recently,…

The history of Syriac traditions is often told as a history of opposition to the Roman Empire. There are good reasons for this, mainly relating to the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries, and the establishment of independent church hierarchies. Much has been said about an enmity between the Syrians and the Greeks,…

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