Harvard Byzantine Empire Class to Study ‘Trans Monks’ and ‘Genderless Angels’
“Topics for discussion include: normative concepts and representations of masculinity and femininity; asceticism and the gendered body”
There is no discipline of study that will be spared from the left’s agenda. It is being embedded in everything.
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard class on Byzantine Empire to study ‘trans monks’ and ‘genderless angels’
A Harvard University course this fall semester will study “trans monks,” cross-dressing, “genderless angels,” and intersectionality in the Byzantine Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire).
The course, “Gender in Byzantium,” focuses “on the entire spectrum of binary and non-binary conceptualizations, representations and performances of gender in Byzantium by exploring textual and visual material alongside recent scholarship on gender and sexuality.”
“Topics for discussion include: normative concepts and representations of masculinity and femininity; asceticism and the gendered body; emotions and gender; same-sex desire and relationships (homosociality); cross-dressing (trans monks?); intersectionality (gender, race and class); authorial (cis- and trans-) gender performance; eunuchs (a ‘third gender’?); incorporeal/genderless angels,” the course description continues.
One course text, “Byzantine Intersectionality,” labels the terms “transvestite” and “cross-dressing” as “problematic.” Referring to women who pretended to be male eunuchs in order to live as monks, the text adds: “[S]cholars repeatedly have shied away from referring to these figures as ‘transgender,’ instead calling them ‘transvestite nuns,’ ‘cross-dressing’ saints, or women in ‘disguise.’ These pejorative terms, which are pervasive throughout the historiography, negate these subjects’ identification as transgender persons.”
The text gives the example of Marinos, a woman–whom the text consistently refers to as “he” and “him”–who snuck her way into a monastery and successfully passed herself off as a man in order to become a monk. The text also refers to her life as “a typical narrative for a transgender monk.”
Another course text, “Women, Men, and Gender in Christianity,” claims that the Gospels “enshrine” anti-Semitic rhetoric, and that “Gender has been an idea of considerable fluidity throughout history, and throughout Christian history as well.”
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Persons have a sex; objects have gender. And angels, being spirit, are neither male nor female. I guess that last would be news to the typical Harvard undergrad.
Q: So, tell me everything about yourself in one sentence. Take your time.
A: Well, in 2024, I could have done almost anything at all, I could have attended pretty much any college in pretty much any country, And I could have postponed college for a year or two in order to pursue other interests ………. but no , my family and I thought it best for me to enroll at Harvard.
Q: (pause)
A: (pause)
Q: You’re serious, right?
A: Yes, of course I’m serious.
Q: OK, thank you.
^^^ classic! ^^^
Well, it is based on real events.
I’m waiting for the classes on Ancient Egyptian UFO Engineering, Wakandan Transdimensional Physics, and the Sacred Cellphone of Mohammed. I know they’re coming.
To be a fly in the ointment here.
The medieval Roman state and population of the Eastern Roman Empire very overtly believed in only two genders, if you are capable of reading any of the latin speaking western roman or greek speaking eastern roman jurists covered either in the Justinian Code, by Leo III, Leo VI or any other imperial codification of law and able to claim the Eastern Roman Empire ever had any belief in anything other than male and female your a liar.
Eastern Roman Empire did not see angels as male or female because the bible is very clear an angel could take a very wide variety of forms and is in no way human or mortal.
However there is nothing wrong with honestly going through the record left by inscriptions/literary sources to see what the women and girls of the Eastern Roman Empire did in practice, what the ideals are, and what the law allowed (it was surprisingly generous for the time period).
What it meant to be a male, and what are the civic and religious obligations of a man, and matching what it meant to be a woman and what was your place in society as a woman is very meaningful if you want to claim to know a thing about them.
That said the title does make it look like they are going to just take women and girls pretending to be men for advancement and claiming that was trans.
Perhaps that society was many centuries before its time, with eunuchs really trans-women with the process only partly completed – worth a Harvard course, for sure.
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