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

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 donation...

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Superior document:Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte ; Band 60/61
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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.
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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.