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Eunuchs and castrati : a cultural history
- Title
- Eunuchs and castrati : a cultural history / Piotr O. Scholz ; translated from the German by John A. Broadwin and Shelley L. Frisch.
- Author
- Scholz, Piotr O.
- Publication
- Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2001.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 327 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-320) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translation of: Der entmannte Eros.
- Contents
- Sexuality and emasculation, or longing for paradise -- In the beginning were the gods -- "Sacred kingship" and its consequences -- Eunuchs in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds -- The emperor of China and his eunuchs -- "Chastity of the angels" sexuality in early Christianity -- From the origins of Islam to the Toapkapi Seraglio -- Emasculated heros of the western middle ages -- From the "waning of the middle ages" the the witch trials of the early modern period -- Voices of the angels: the papal castrati and the birth of opera.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-12798
- ISBN
- 1558762000 (hc : alk. paper)
- 1558762019 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00063415
- OCLC
- 44841580
- Author
- Scholz, Piotr O.
- Title
- Eunuchs and castrati : a cultural history / Piotr O. Scholz ; translated from the German by John A. Broadwin and Shelley L. Frisch.
- Imprint
- Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-320) and index.
- Language
- Translation of: Der entmannte Eros.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-12798