Questions of gender in Byzantine society 9781315603339, 1315603330, 9781317072331, 1317072332
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English Pages 218 Year 2016
Table of contents :
1. An introduction to questions of gender in Byzantium / Bronwen Neil --
2. Perceptions of Byzantine Virtus in southern Italy, from the eighth to eleventh centuries / Paul Brown --
3. 'Till death do us part?' : family life in Byzantine monasteries / Lynda Garland --
4. Psalmody and Socrates : female literacy in the Byzantine empire / Amelia R. Brown --
5. Changing conceptions of Mary in sixth-century Byzantium : the Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist / Sarah Gador-Whyte --
6. Ghosts in the machine : the lives and deaths of Constantinian imperial women / Liz James --
7. Regarding women on the throne : representations of Empress Eirene / Bronwen Neil --
8. The brides of 1420 : men looking at women's bodies / Diana Gilliland Wright --
9. Bearding Byzantium : masculinity, eunuchs and the Byzantine life course / Shaun Tougher --
10. The spiritual valency of gender in Byzantine society / Damien Casey.
