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'A magnificent achievement – this is one of the finest examples of investigative historical empathy available. It offers a game-changing social history of queerness that shatters multiple contemporary expectations, and a revelatory interpretation of the medieval evidence.' Leonora Neville, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair of Byzantine History and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison 'Derek Krueger's carefully nuanced and deeply contextualized readings shed welcome light on the erotics of Byzantine spirituality. Monastic Desires makes a persuasive case for why Symeon the New Theologian's unique voice should matter to historians of both Eastern and Western Christian monastic devotion, and to theorists of pre-modern queer identity.' David Townsend, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies and English, University of Toronto

'A magnificent achievement – this is one of the finest examples of investigative historical empathy available. In addition to a game changing social history of homoeroticism, it offers a theology of queerness that shatters multiple contemporary expectations while providing revelatory interpretations of the medieval evidence.' Leonora Neville, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair of Byzantine History and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison 'Derek Krueger's carefully nuanced and deeply contextualized readings shed welcome light on the erotics of Byzantine spirituality. Monastic Desires makes a persuasive case for why Simeon the New Theologian's unique voice should matter to historians of both Eastern and Western Christian monastic devotion, as to theorists of pre-modern queer identity. David Townsend, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies and English, University of Toronto

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Derek Krueger is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a preeminent scholar of Byzantine Christianity. His books include Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative, and the Formation of the Self in Byzantium (2014) and Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East (2004).

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