Monastic Desires : Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople

Omtale

This groundbreaking study of homoeroticism and homophobia in medieval Orthodoxy places Symeon the New Theologian's erotic spirituality of union with God in the context of preaching and civil and canon law against homosexuality. A radical new interpretation of the Byzantine monastic tradition by a preeminent authority on medieval Christianity.