Unrivalled influence : women and empire in Byzantium /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herrin, Judith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Temas:
500-1500
Women > Byzantine Empire > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Women > Byzantine Empire > Social conditions.
Women and religion > Byzantine Empire.
Upper class women > Byzantine Empire.
Femmes > Empire byzantin > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes > Empire byzantin > Conditions sociales.
Femmes et religion > Empire byzantin.
Femmes de la classe supérieure > Empire byzantin.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Manners and customs
Upper class women
Women and religion
Women > Middle Ages
Women > Social conditions
Byzantine Empire > Social life and customs.
Byzantine Empire
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Women in Byzantium
  • In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach
  • Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity
  • Unrivalled influence : mothers and daughters in the medieval Greek world
  • "Femina Byzantina" : the council in Trullo on women
  • Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women
  • The imperial feminine in Byzantium
  • Political power and Christian faith in Byzantium : the case of Irene (regent 780-90, emperor 797-802)
  • Moving bones : evidence of political burials from medieval Constantinople
  • The many empresses of the Byzantine court (and all their attendants)
  • Theophano : considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess
  • Toleration and repression in the Byzantine family : gender problems
  • The icon corner in medieval Byzantium
  • Marriage : a fundamental element of imperial statecraft
  • Index.

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