Dr Shaun Tougher
Books
Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate (ed. with N. Baker-Brian) (Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2012)
The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (Routledge, London, 2008)
Julian the Apostate (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007)
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond (ed.) (Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales, London, 2002)
The Reign of Leo VI (886–912): Politics and People (Brill, Leiden, 1997)
Journal articles and chapters in books
‘Reading between the lines: Julian’s First Panegyric on Constantius II’, Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate, ed. N. Baker-Brian and S. Tougher (2012) 19–34
‘Imperial blood: family relationships in the dynasty of Constantine the Great’, Families in the Roman and Late Antique World, ed. M. Harlow and L.L. Lovén (2011), 181–198
‘Having fun in Byzantium’, A Companion to Byzantium, ed. L. James (2010), 135–145
‘Cherchez l’homme! Byzantine men: a eunuch perspective’, The Byzantine World, ed. P. Stephenson (2010) 83–91
‘After iconoclasm (850–886)’, The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500–1492, ed. J. Shepard (2008) 292–304
‘The Renault Bagoas: The treatment of Alexander the Great’s eunuch in Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy’, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 3 (2008) 77–89
‘The angelic life: monasteries for eunuchs’, Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman, ed. E. M. Jeffreys (2006) 238–252
‘Two views on the gender identity of Byzantine eunuchs’, Changing Sex and Bending Gender, ed. A. Shaw and S. Ardener (2005) 60–73
‘Political history (602–1025)’, Palgrave Advances in Byzantine History, ed. J. Harris (2005) 24–38
with Liz James, ‘Get your kit on! Some issues in the depiction of clothing in Byzantium’, The Clothed Body in the Ancient World, ed. L. Cleland, M. Harlow and L. Llewellyn-Jones (2005) 154–161
‘Holy eunuchs! Masculinity and eunuch saints in Byzantium’, Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, ed. P. Cullum and K. Lewis (2004) 93–108
‘Julian’s bull coinage: Kent revisited’, Classical Quarterly 54 (2004) 327–330
‘Social transformation, gender transformation? The court eunuch, 300–900’, Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300–900, ed. L. Brubaker and J. M. H. Smith (2004) 70–82
‘In or out? Origins of court eunuchs’, Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond, ed. S. Tougher (2002) 143–159
‘Ammianus on the empress Eusebia’, Greece & Rome 47 (2000) 94–101
‘Images of effeminate men: the case of Byzantine eunuchs’, Masculinity in Medieval Europe, ed. D. M. Hadley (1999) 89–100
‘Just good friends? Michael III and Basil Macedonian’, Desire and Denial in Byzantium, ed. L. James (1999) 149–158
‘Ammianus and the eunuchs’, The Late Roman World and its Historian, ed. J. W. Drijvers and D. Hunt (1999) 64–73
‘The imperial thought-world of Leo VI, the non-campaigning emperor of the ninth century’, Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?, ed. L. Brubaker (1998) 51–60
‘In praise of an empress: Julian’s Speech of Thanks to Eusebia’, The Propaganda of Power. The Role of Panegyric in Late Antiquity, ed. M. Whitby (1998) 105–123
‘The advocacy of an empress: Julian and Eusebia’, Classical Quarterly 48 (1998) 595–599
‘Byzantine eunuchs: an overview’, Women, Men and Eunuchs. Gender in Byzantium, ed. L. James (1997) 168–184
‘The bad relations between Alexander and Leo’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 20 (1996) 209–212
‘The wisdom of Leo VI’, New Constantines, ed. P. Magdalino (1994) 171–179