Female founders in Byzantium and beyond / / Galina Fingarova, Matthew Savage.

• Superior document: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte ; Band 60/61
• VerfasserIn: Fingarova, Galina,; Savage, Matthew,
• TeilnehmendeR: Savage, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Wien : : Böhlau,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte ; Band 60/61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

This volume presents the results of a scholarly meeting which focused on the patronage of women in the Byzantine Empire. In their scope, the articles address broadly not only the founding or re-founding of churches and monasteries, but also their rich decoration, as well as numerous smaller donations. In spite of increased attention to gender research in recent years, a comparative treatment of the legal and economic potentiel that women in Byzantium could exercise in order to exert independent influence has been lacking; thus a gender-specific viewpoint for the volume was intentionally chosen.

Table of Contents

Female founders -- Das Projekt : Netzerke oder Seilschaften? / Lioba Theis -- Female founders -- Das Konzept : Zu Stiftungshandlungen in der byzantinischen Welt / Michael Grünbart -- Visibility of female founders : the case of Ancient Greece / Marion Meyer -- Male constructions of female identities : authority and power in the Byzantine Greek lives of monastic foundresses /Stavroula Constantinou -- Making a name : reputation and imperial founding and refounding in Constantinople / Liz James -- Asceticism and hospitality as patronage in the Late Antique Holy Land : the example of Paula and Melania the Elder / Marlena Whiting -- Do good in they good pleasure unto Zion : the patronage of Aelia Eudokia in Jerusalem / Konstantin M. Klein -- The image of the Empress Theodora as Patron / Ulrike Unterweger -- Die Stifterinnentätigkeit der Kaiserin Sophia : Impuls für die Gleichberechtigung mit dem Kaiser? / Judith Radlegger -- Female "donors" in eighth-century Egypt / Cornelia Römer -- Patronage in the Patria, matronage and maternity / Eirini Panou -- Deconstructing "donors" in medieval southern Italy / Linda Safran -- The adventures of a provincial female founder : Glykeria and the rhetoric of female weakness / Leonora Neville -- La rhétorique au secours du patrimoine : Psellos, les impériatrices en les monastères / Eric Limousin -- The sebastokratorissa Irene as patron / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Female church founders : the agency of the village widow in Late Byzantium / Sharon E.J. Gerstel and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti -- Le don de l'église : une affaire de couple? / Tania Kambourova -- Female donors in thirteenth-century wall paintings in Cappadocia : an overview / Nota Karamaouna -- Auf der Suche nach weiblichem Stiftertum im "Prosopographischen Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit" eine erste Auswertung / Sylvie Herl -- Female patronage in the Palaiologan era : icons, minor arts and manuscripts / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Klostergründungen russischer Fürstinnen im dreizehnten Jahrhundert / Anna Michalowska -- Die Stifterin par excellence : zur Deutung des Stifterbildes in der Marienkirche von Apollonia, Albanien / Galina Fingarova -- Theodora Raoulaina als Stifterin und Patronin / Alexander Riehle -- Women's authority in death : the patronage of aristocratic laywomen in Late Byzantium / Sarah Brooks -- Frauen als Gründerinnen von Doppelklöstern im byzantinischen Reich / Ekaterini Mitsiou -- A late Byzantine patroness : Helena Kantakouzene Palaiologina / Florin Leonte -- Notes on female piety in the hermitages of the Ohrid and Prespa region : the case of Mali Grad / Saška Bogevska -- The Meteora Icon of the Incredulity of Thomas reconsidered / Fani Gargova -- I seek not my own : is there a female mode of charity and patronage? / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- The epistles of princess Jelena Balšić : an example of female cultural patronage in the late medieval Balkans / Alexandra Vukovich -- Sins of female founders in Late Byzantium and Trebizond / Petras Melichar -- Female founders : in conclusion : the gynamics of foundation / Margaret Mullett.