Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

By Roland Betancourt, Member (2016–17) in the School of Historical Studies:

Ultimately, it is hard for me to explain from where this book began. Over the years, it becomes clear to me that I could not have not written this book, even if I had tried to resist it. Byzantine Intersectionality emerged from the simple reality of existing in this world as a queer, Latinx historian of Byzantine art.

“Why Byzantium?” Why would a queer, Latinx person study Byzantine art? The answer to this question is not about the person who studies Byzantium. The answer to this question is a declaration as to what our history and scholarship have to gain from that person.

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