Derek Krueger
Emeritus professor of religious studies at UNC Greensboro and scholar of Byzantine Christianity, specializing in monasticism, saints' lives, and liturgy; author of Monastic Desires and other works on religion in late antiquity and Byzantium.
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Mar 30, 2026 • 1h 29min
Derek Krueger "Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Derek Krueger, emeritus UNC Greensboro scholar of Byzantine Christianity and monasticism. He explores Simeon the New Theologian’s strikingly homoerotic language of divine union. Short scenes cover monastic disciplining of desire, Byzantine homophobia, hymn readings about the divinized body, and how monasteries shaped queer devotional life.
