248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' fields of operation. This new research across a range of disciplines attempts to provide an analysis of... Read more
Contents: Editor's introduction; Changing functions of monasteries for women during Byzantine iconoclasm, Judith Herrin; Kassia the Nun c.810-c.865: an appreciation, Anna M. Silvas; Propriety, practicality and pleasure: the parameters of women’s dress in Byzantium, A.D. 1000-1200, Timothy Dawson; Taxing Sophronia’s son-in-law: representations of women in provincial documents, Leonora Neville; Mary ’of Alania’: woman and empress between two worlds, Lynda Garland & Stephen Rapp; Middle Byzantine family values and Anna Komnene’s Alexiad, Dion C. Smythe; Women in Byzantine novels of the 12th century: an interplay between norm and fantasy, Corinne Jouanno; Street life in Constantinople: women and the carnivalesque, Lynda Garland; Imperial women and entertainment at the middle Byzantine court, Lynda Garland; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Lynda Garland is an Associate Professor in the School of Classics, History and Religion at The University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
’Unquestionably, this volume includes some good papers approaching Byzantine women from new perspectives and offering a good background to those interested in the subject.’ Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
