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Women of Byzantium /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Connor, Carolyn L. (Carolyn Loessel)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Women > Byzantine Empire.
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Ascetic women and religious life in early Christianity
  • Pilgrimage
  • Female imperial authority
  • Sinners and saints
  • Women and artistic patronage
  • The challenge of Theodora
  • Ordinary women in the orbit of Theodore of Sykeon
  • Women's monasticism
  • Women in art
  • Imperial women and marriage
  • The world of Anna Komnene
  • Founding mothers and the testimony of the Typika
  • Epilogue.