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Eunuchs and Castrati: A Cultural History

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A social history of the role of eunuchs within the households and courts of Greece, Rome, China, Byzantine, medieval Europe and the East, which aims to challenge traditional preconceptions about their duties. Scholz demonstrates that many eunuchs weren’t slaves however were as a substitute essential household and government officers who exerted nice influence, significantly within the Close to East. He also argues that androgeny was once idealised as a liberated and pure condition in medieval Christian Europe.

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