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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"eunuch"”.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Modern Victorian
… last found him out. He who feared to be Time’s eunuch has defeated Time with many a poem that both breeds and wakes."
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Genre and Empire: Historical Romance and Sixteenth-Century Chinese Cultural Fantasies
… pilgrimage to India, and a hybrid romance Eunuch Sanbao's Voyages on the Indian Ocean relating to Zheng He's maritime journeys and Japanese piracy. The project focuses on the trope of exogamous desire of foreign princesses and undomestic women to marry Chinese and social elite men, and the …
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Theodoret of Cyrus and the ideal monarch
… Christological controversies, and Chrysaphius, eunuch Grand Chamberlain, while Theodosius did nothing. An examination of the literary conventions available to Theodoret has been undertaken. Frances Young's discussion of mimesis and Leo Strauss's explanation of exoteric interpretation are …
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An Assessment of the Notitia Dignitatum as a Historical Source for the Late Roman Bureaucracy
… evident in the power exercised by some eunuch cubicularii and the status accorded to certain groups left out of the Notitia Dignitatum, not least imperial women and Christian bishops. In this way, I make evident the limitations of the Notitia Dignitatum as a historical source when it is …
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Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams
The expression “body of work” has long been used to describe the creative output of an author or artist, and the Latin word corpus is traditionally used to signify the bulk of a textual work because it represents a whole being made of many parts. This dissertation explores Martial’s Epigrams to ask …