Literary erotism as testimony of a change in moral values in 11th and 12th century byzantium

Authors

  • Pedro Bádenas de la Peña Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas España

Abstract

Examination of the transformation of the values‘ scale in the Byzantine society during the 11th and 12th centuries, through the introduction of erotism in literature. The treatment of this issue and the erotic language are studied in various writers and genres of the above mentioned period.

Keywords:

Erotism in Byzantium. Erotic byzantine literature.

Author Biography

Pedro Bádenas de la Peña, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas España

Director Instituto Cervantes - Atenas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, España