Unrivalled influence: women and empire in Byzantium/
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton Oxford:
Princeton University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction - Women in Byzantium - In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach - Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity - Mothers and daughters in the medieval Greek world - 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.