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... Chapter 3 showcases a case study that links the lives of dying eunuchs at the royal court to the rise of minstrelsy performances within a generation. Naser ed-Din Shah (r. 1848–96) began to memorialize court eunuchs through photography and memoirs, most of whom were of African ancestry who were...

... Chapter 5 traces black youths, specifically eunuchs, in the Ottoman court and their travels to the English world. As the Ottoman empire expanded into Africa in the second half of the sixteenth century, the number of eunuchized black slaves in Ottoman lands increased. The bodies of black boys...

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... that links the lives of dying eunuchs at the royal court to the rise of minstrelsy performances within a generation. Naser ed-Din Shah (r. 1848–96) began to memorialize court eunuchs through photography and memoirs, most of whom were of African ancestry who were among the last generations of eunuchs in Iran...

... conversion of boys necessitated conversions of their bodies as sites of cultural, religious, political, and erotic negotiations. circumcision A Christian Turn’d Turk Othello and conversion Othello’s penis travel and captivity Chapter 5 traces black youths, specifically eunuchs, in the Ottoman...

..., dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out with the emperor, who exiled him...

... a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out with the emperor, who...

... a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out with the emperor, who...

... a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out with the emperor, who...

... a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out with the emperor, who...

... who have a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out...

... native sons who have a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out...

... a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out with the emperor, who...

... who have a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out...

... a radical, dissident perspective on that history: (1) Favorinus, born in Arles in the first century, was a Celt who became a noted philosopher and the greatest orator in Greek in the Roman Empire, at a time when oratory was highly prized. He was also a eunuch. He had a falling out with the emperor, who...