Unrivalled Influence : : Women and Empire in Byzantium /

Unrivalled Influence : : Women and Empire in Byzantium / / Judith Herrin.

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Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Herrin, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments. Notes
  • 1. Women in Byzantium
  • 2. In Search of Byzantine Women: Three Avenues of Approach
  • 3. Women and the Faith in Icons in Early Christianity
  • 4. Mothers and Daughters in the Medieval Greek World
  • 5. "Femina Byzantina": The Council in Trullo on Women
  • 6. Public and Private Forms of Religious Commitment among Byzantine Women
  • 7. The Imperial Feminine in Byzantium
  • 8. Political Power and Christian Faith in Byzantium: The Case of Irene (Regent 780-90, Emperor 797-802)
  • 9. Moving Bones: Evidence of Political Burials from Medieval Constantinople
  • 10. The Many Empresses of the Byzantine Court (and All Their Attendants)
  • 11. Theophano: Considerations on the Education of a Byzantine Princess
  • 12. Toleration and Repression in the Byzantine Family: Gender Problems
  • 13. The Icon Corner in Medieval Byzantium
  • 14. Marriage: A Fundamental Element of Imperial Statecraft
  • Index

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