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...

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Publicado en:	Early Medieval Europe Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 43 - 62
Autor principal:	Papaioannou, Stratis
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Feb2011
Materias:	Friendship in literature Love in literature Psellos, Michael Narratives Human sexuality in literature
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