Michael Psellos on friendship and love: erotic discourse in eleventh-century Constantinople.
This paper examines representations of friendship and desire in the writings of the Constantinopolitan author Michael Psellos (1018- c.1078). Within the Byzantine context of strict Christian constraints regarding expressions of sexual desire, Psellos reconfigures the dominant late antique image of f...
| Publicado en: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 43 - 62 |
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