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Why Did the Byzantine Empire Forbid Slave-Owners from Making Eunuchs of their Slaves? Castration, Masculinity, and Identity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Thanks for this reference!
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thanks for this reference!
Heiric and the Querolus are discussed here repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/2ad39e...
But maybe also worth consulting new 2023 edition of the Querolus by Brandenburg
But maybe also worth consulting new 2023 edition of the Querolus by Brandenburg
The "Querolus", edited with an introduction and commentary | openEQUELLA
O'Donnell, Rosemary Dorothy (1981)
The "Querolus", edited with an introduction and commentary.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Heiric and the Querolus are discussed here repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/2ad39e...
But maybe also worth consulting new 2023 edition of the Querolus by Brandenburg
But maybe also worth consulting new 2023 edition of the Querolus by Brandenburg
We approve of this perspective! It's a great question.
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We approve of this perspective! It's a great question.
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(I am teasing a bit, but it's only preserved because a couple of Carolingian scribes thought it worth copying - one wonders what they made of it)
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
(I am teasing a bit, but it's only preserved because a couple of Carolingian scribes thought it worth copying - one wonders what they made of it)
Thanks! There is a nice brief discussion in Kyle Harper, Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275–435 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 249-52.
Plus see recent edition by Brandenburg (2023, in German) and O'Donell's unpublished University of London thesis/translation (online)
Plus see recent edition by Brandenburg (2023, in German) and O'Donell's unpublished University of London thesis/translation (online)
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thanks! There is a nice brief discussion in Kyle Harper, Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275–435 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 249-52.
Plus see recent edition by Brandenburg (2023, in German) and O'Donell's unpublished University of London thesis/translation (online)
Plus see recent edition by Brandenburg (2023, in German) and O'Donell's unpublished University of London thesis/translation (online)
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We had an entire day of stimulating discussions yesterday at the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity' workshop organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly. We are grateful to @dependencybonn.de for providing funding and assistance for this event.
October 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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