Women, Men and Eunuchs (eBook, ePUB)

Gender in Byzantium
Redaktion: James, Elizabeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Women, Men and Eunuchs offers a unique and valuable exploration of the issue of gender in Byzantium, which will fascinate anyone interested in ancient and medieval history and gender studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135105471
• Artikelnr.: 42827883

Autorenporträt

Liz James is a lecturer in the History of Art, School of European Studies, University of Sussex. She has published several articles on women in Byzantium and is currently working on a book on Byzantine Empresses.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes
on Contributors Introductory Essay: Women's Studies, Gender Studies,
Byzantine Studies Liz James 1. Sacred and Profane Love: Thoughts on
Byzantine Gender Averil Cameron 2. Women and Icons, and Women in Icons
Robin Cormack 3. Memories of Helena: Patterns in Imperial Female Matronage
in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Leslie Brubaker 4. Imperial Women and the
Ideology of Womanhood in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Barbara Hill 5.
Gender and Orientalism in Georgia in the Age of Queen Tamar Antony Eastmond
6. Salome's Sisters. The Rhetoric and Realities of Dance in Late Antiquity
and Byzantium Ruth Webb 7. Women as Outsiders Dion C. Smythe 8. Byzantine
Eunuchs: An Overview, with Special Reference to their Creation and Origin
Shaun F. Tougher 9. Homo Byzantinus? Charles Barber Select Bibliography
Index