Byzantine women: varieties of experience AD 800-1200/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot:
Ashgate,
c2006
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| Series: | Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London. Publications. 8
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: 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 twelfth 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.