Directory of Eunuchs Resources

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• Castrati

Resources in This Category

• Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood

  http://www.salon.com/2000/12/13/taylor_6/
  A review of the book by Gary Taylor which looks at eunuchs through the ages.

• The Eunuchs of China

  http://www.usrf.org/news/010308-eunuchs_china.html
  About the practice of using emasculated and castrated males to serve in the emperor's harem from the 8th century B.C. to 1912.

• The Story of My Misfortunes

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/abelard-histcal.asp
  Full text from Peter Abelard's Historia Calamitatum, which recounts his affair with Heloise and subsequent castration.

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