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Eunuchs

Images

  • A fat eunuch reclining on cushions. Coloured ink drawing.
  • Saint Philip baptising the eunuch. Engraving by J. Browne, 1772, after J. Gresse after J. and A. Both.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The keeper of the bed : the story of the eunuch / Charles Humana.

    Humana, Charles, 1919- | Date: 1973
    • Pictures
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    A fat eunuch reclining on cushions. Coloured ink drawing.

    | Reference: 726605i
    • Books

    The perfect servant : eunuchs and the social construction of gender in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose.

    Ringrose, Kathryn M. | Date: [2003], ©2003
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    The Hippocratic 'Airs, waters, places' on cross-dressing eunuchs : 'natural' yet also 'divine' / Elinor Lieber.

    Lieber, Elinor. | Date: 1996
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    Ein weiteres spätantikes Zeugnis für die Zahnzahl der Eunuchen / Klaus-Dietrich Fischer.

    Fischer, Klaus-Dietrich. | Date: 1985
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