Women, Men and Eunuchs: The Three Sexes in Byzantium




Royal Academy of Arts (archive) show

Summary: An evening lecture in support of the exhibition 'Byzantium 330-1453'. Professor Liz James, University of Sussex, explores the different roles and lifestyles allocated to the three sexes who made up Byzantine society: men, the most important; women, the least significant; and eunuchs, neither one nor the other.