Unrivalled influence women and empire in Byzantium /

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1. Verfasser: Herrin, Judith
Körperschaft: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.