Byzantine Women

Varieties of Experience 800-1200
Herausgeber: Garland, Lynda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a group of international scholars in new explorations of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' fields of operation. Contributions focus on women's participation in the street life of Constantinople, their appearance in Byzantine fiscal documents, their monastic foundations, their costume and engagement with entertainment at the imperial court, and the way heroines are portrayed in the Byzantine novels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138259515
• ISBN-10: 1138259519
• Artikelnr.: 57058205

Autorenporträt

Lynda Garland is an Associate Professor in the School of Classics, History and Religion at The University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Editor's introduction
Changing functions of monasteries for women during Byzantine iconoclasm, Judith Herrin
Kassia the Nun c.810-c.865: an appreciation, Anna M. Silvas
Propriety, practicality and pleasure: the parameters of women's dress in Byzantium, A.D. 1000-1200, Timothy Dawson
Taxing Sophronia's son-in-law: representations of women in provincial documents, Leonora Neville
Mary 'of Alania': woman and empress between two worlds, Lynda Garland & Stephen Rapp
Middle Byzantine family values and Anna Komnene's Alexiad, Dion C. Smythe
Women in Byzantine novels of the 12th century: an interplay between norm and fantasy, Corinne Jouanno
Street life in Constantinople: women and the carnivalesque, Lynda Garland
Imperial women and entertainment at the middle Byzantine court, Lynda Garland
Bibliography
Index.