Shaun Tougher
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Tougher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Tougher |
| SIGNATURE | TOUGHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5261-4715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fif…
Between Byzantine Men
Military Leadership from Ancient Greece to Byzantium
Military Leadership from Ancient Greece to Byzantium
Alexander the Gay and the Gloryhole That Was Greece
Within contemporary Western gay communities, Alexander the Great is often championed as a hero and an inspirational figure – the ultimate high-status homosexual. This chapter explores the various ways in which he has been visualised within the gay community and its wider – more closeted – community. The chapter explores his literary image in the novels of Mary Renault, in stage musicals and pornography and in mainstream Hollywood cinema. The dark…
Byzantine Intersectionality
The Roman Castrati
Eunuchs tend to be associated with eastern courts, popularly perceived as harem personnel. However, the Roman empire was also distinguished by eunuchs – they existed as slaves, court officials, religious figures and free men. This book is the first to be devoted to the range of Roman eunuchs. Across seven chapters (spanning the third century BC to the sixth century AD), Shaun Tougher examines the history of Roman eunuchs, focusing on key texts an…
Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium
This volume is unique in addressing a key aspect of ancient warfare across a broad chronological and cultural span, focusing on generalship from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century AD. Across this broad scan, it explores a range of ideas on how to be a successful general, showing how the art of generalship - a profession that has been occupied variously by the political elite, the mercenary soldier and the eunuch - evolv…
Epilogue
The epilogue provides a brief conclusion to the volume, focusing on Arrian’s assessment of the generalship of Alexander the Great.
Julian the Apologist
This chapter examines how the myth and cult of the Mother of the Gods (with the associated figures of Attis and the supposedly self-castrating Galli) were utilized in the rhetorical construction of religious identity in the fourth century AD. Christians in their characterizations of paganism gave a prominent place to the cult of the Great Mother, usually in salacious and shocking terms, and the chapter focuses on the examples of Arnobius and Firm…
Eusebia and Eusebius
The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361
The Emperor in the Byzantine World
The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but there remains no equivalent to Fergus Millar's The Emperor in the Roman World (from which the proposed volume takes inspiration for its title and scope)…
Emperor in the Byzantine World
Julian the Apostate
This study of the last pagan Roman emperor provides remarkable insight into the man and his timesThe figure of Julian demands the attention of historians. As the last pagan Roman Emperor, he provides a focus for studying the religious transformations that were taking place in the empire in the fourth century. Further, his secular policies and concerns concentrate attention on other transformations - social and political - within the period.Notabl…
Julian Augustus on Augustus
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The Last Pagan Emperor
This book is testimony to the enduring fascination with the figure of the last pagan Roman Emperor Julian, better known as Julian the Apostate, for his conversion from Christianity to paganism and his desire to restore paganism following the “revolution” of his uncle Constantine the Great (306–337), the first Christian Roman emperor. Despite reigning for only a short period (sole Augustus from 361–363, though he was Caesar to his cousin Constanti…
Leo VI , emperor
Leo VI (866–912 CE) is the second ruler of the Macedonian Dynasty (867–1056), infamous for marrying four times and for the military problems the empire faced during his reign. However, he is significant also for consolidating the dynasty and for his literary activities, reflecting the intellectual interests so characteristic of the period.
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
The Aesthetics of Castration
Susanna Elm. Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church
Julian, emperor
Julian is famed as the last pagan Roman emperor, whose attempt to restore traditional religion and undermine the position of christianity in the Roman empire was curtailed when he was killed during his abortive invasion ofthe Persian Empire.
Eunuchs, Late Antiquity
Eunuchs are a defining feature of Late Antiquity, for in this period they became an institutional feature of the Roman imperial court, in their capacity as chamberlains ( cubicularii ).
Emperor and Author
Emperor and author
Introduction Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher -- Julian the writer and his audience / Susanna Elm -- Reading between the lines : ; Julian's First Panegyric on Constantius II / Shaun Tougher -- 'But I digress...' : ; rhetoric and propaganda in Julian's second oration to Constantius / Hal Drake -- Is there an empress in the text? ; Julian's Speech of thanks to Eusebia / Liz James -- Julian's Consolation to himself on the departure of the exce…
Julian the Apostate
This study of the last pagan Roman emperor provides remarkable insight into the man and his timesThe figure of Julian demands the attention of historians. As the last pagan Roman Emperor, he provides a focus for studying the religious transformations that were taking place in the empire in the fourth century. Further, his secular policies and concerns concentrate attention on other transformations - social and political - within the period.Notabl…
The Advocacy of an empress
The importance of the role of the empress Eusebia1 in the watershed years (354–5) of the life of Julian is not in question. The narrative runs as follows. When Julian was summoned to Milan in 354 to the court of his Christian cousin Constantius (337–61) in the aftermath of the execution of his half-brother Gallus for treason and was questioned about his loyalty to the emperor, it was the empress who secured an audience for him with the emperor an…
The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361
The bad relations between Alexander and Leo
It is well known that there was an element of tension, not to say hatred, between the imperial brothers Leo VI (886?912) and Alexander I (912?913). This fraternal enmity appears to have emanated primarily from Alexander himself, as the Life of Euthymios makes explicit. 1 Certainly during Leo's reign Alexander, his co-emperor, was implicated in two plots against his brother. The first is located in the period from late 899 to early 900, a very sen…
The Advocacy of an empress
The importance of the role of the empress Eusebia1 in the watershed years (354–5) of the life of Julian is not in question. The narrative runs as follows. When Julian was summoned to Milan in 354 to the court of his Christian cousin Constantius (337–61) in the aftermath of the execution of his half-brother Gallus for treason and was questioned about his loyalty to the emperor, it was the empress who secured an audience for him with the emperor an…
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond
Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. The special virtue attributed to the castrated male at court, of undistracted loyalty to his ruler, aided the promotion of numerous eunuchs to positions of great power. A literary discourse developed, reviling and sometimes defending the eminence of these 'half-men'. Here, thirteen new studies from an international cast explore how eunuchs were perceived, and also rec…
Julian’s bull coinage
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Changing Sex and Bending Gender
Athanasios Markopoulos, History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th-10th Centuries. Aldershot
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George Akropolites, The History. Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Ruth Macrides. Oxford
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Julian, emperor
Julian is famed as the last pagan Roman emperor, whose attempt to restore traditional religion and undermine the position of christianity in the Roman empire was curtailed when he was killed during his abortive invasion ofthe Persian Empire.
Eunuchs, Late Antiquity
Eunuchs are a defining feature of Late Antiquity, for in this period they became an institutional feature of the Roman imperial court, in their capacity as chamberlains ( cubicularii ).
Emperor and Author
Emperor and author
Introduction Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher -- Julian the writer and his audience / Susanna Elm -- Reading between the lines : ; Julian's First Panegyric on Constantius II / Shaun Tougher -- 'But I digress...' : ; rhetoric and propaganda in Julian's second oration to Constantius / Hal Drake -- Is there an empress in the text? ; Julian's Speech of thanks to Eusebia / Liz James -- Julian's Consolation to himself on the departure of the exce…
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
The Aesthetics of Castration
Susanna Elm. Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church
Leo VI , emperor
Leo VI (866–912 CE) is the second ruler of the Macedonian Dynasty (867–1056), infamous for marrying four times and for the military problems the empire faced during his reign. However, he is significant also for consolidating the dynasty and for his literary activities, reflecting the intellectual interests so characteristic of the period.
Julian Augustus on Augustus
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The Last Pagan Emperor
This book is testimony to the enduring fascination with the figure of the last pagan Roman Emperor Julian, better known as Julian the Apostate, for his conversion from Christianity to paganism and his desire to restore paganism following the “revolution” of his uncle Constantine the Great (306–337), the first Christian Roman emperor. Despite reigning for only a short period (sole Augustus from 361–363, though he was Caesar to his cousin Constanti…
The Emperor in the Byzantine World
The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but there remains no equivalent to Fergus Millar's The Emperor in the Roman World (from which the proposed volume takes inspiration for its title and scope)…
Emperor in the Byzantine World
Julian the Apostate
This study of the last pagan Roman emperor provides remarkable insight into the man and his timesThe figure of Julian demands the attention of historians. As the last pagan Roman Emperor, he provides a focus for studying the religious transformations that were taking place in the empire in the fourth century. Further, his secular policies and concerns concentrate attention on other transformations - social and political - within the period.Notabl…
Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium
This volume is unique in addressing a key aspect of ancient warfare across a broad chronological and cultural span, focusing on generalship from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century AD. Across this broad scan, it explores a range of ideas on how to be a successful general, showing how the art of generalship - a profession that has been occupied variously by the political elite, the mercenary soldier and the eunuch - evolv…
Epilogue
The epilogue provides a brief conclusion to the volume, focusing on Arrian’s assessment of the generalship of Alexander the Great.
Julian the Apologist
This chapter examines how the myth and cult of the Mother of the Gods (with the associated figures of Attis and the supposedly self-castrating Galli) were utilized in the rhetorical construction of religious identity in the fourth century AD. Christians in their characterizations of paganism gave a prominent place to the cult of the Great Mother, usually in salacious and shocking terms, and the chapter focuses on the examples of Arnobius and Firm…
Eusebia and Eusebius
The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361
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