
Byzantine Bodies
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Larisa Orlov Vilimonović is Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Belgrade.She holds a PhD in Byzantine History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, embodiment and emotons in Byzantine culture. She is the author of Structure and Features of Anna Komnene’s Alexiad: Emergence of a Personal History (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). Shaun Tougher is Professor of Late Roman and Byzantine History at Cardiff University. He has a BA from Queen’s University Belfast and a PhD from the University of St Andrews. He works especially on dynastic history (primarily the Constantinian and Macedonian dynasties) and on gender and society (notably eunuchs, but also imperial women and questions of masculinity). His publications include The Reign of Leo VI (886-912) (Leiden, 1997), Julian the Apostate (Edinburgh, 2007), The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (London and New York, 2008), and The Roman Castrati: Eunuchs in the Roman Empire (London and New York, 2021).