The lives of the last two most notable eunuchs of the Byzantine Empire: Andronikos Eonopolites, Grand Droungarios of the Fleet and John, Metropolitan of Pontic Heraclea.
Introduction to Byzantine Eunuchs:
• Byzantine Eunuchs: An ...
John the Orphanotropohos:
• The Eunuch Who Nearly ...
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Andronikos Eonopolites
05:35 John Metropolitan of Pontic Heraclea
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Bibliography:
Primary Sources
George Pachymeres, History of the Reigns of Michael and Andronikos Palaiologos, edited and translated by Albert Failler and Vitalien Laurent, Vols. V, (1984-2000).
Nikephoros Gregoras, The Life of John, Metropolitan of Pontic Heraclea, edited and translated by Vitalien Laurent, 'La Vie de Jean, metropolite d'Heraclee du pont',in Archeion Pontou 6, (1934), 3-63.
Scholarship
Gaul, N. 'Eunuchs in the Late Byzantine Empire c.1250-1400'
in Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond, edited by S. Tougher, (2002).
Geanakoplos, D. J. (1959) Emperor Michael Palaiologos and the West, 1258-1282, A Study in Byzantine-Latin Reltations, Harvard.
Nye, T. E. 'Angels, Snakes, and Everything in Between: The Fall of the Byzantine Eunuch' in Young Historians Conference 3 (2022).
Tougher, S. 'Cherchez L'Homme! Byzantine Men: A Eunuch Perspective' in
The Byzantine World, edited by P. Stephenson, (2010).
Trapp, E., Walther, R., Beyer, H.-V., Sturm-Schnabl, K., Kislinger, E., Leontiades, I. and Kaplaneres, S., Prosopographiesches Lexikon Der Palaiologenzeit, (2001).
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