Unrivalled influence women and empire in Byzantium /
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.