Women of Byzantium

Name: Women of Byzantium
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ISBN: 9780300099577

ISBN-10: 0300099576

ISBN-13: 9780300099577

Edition: 2004

Authors: Carolyn L. Connor

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Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the walls of churches to women’s poetry and histories, examining for the first time the lives, occupations, beliefs, and social roles of Byzantine women. In each chapter Carolyn L. Connor introduces us to a single woman—from the elite to the ordinary—and uses her as a springboard to discuss Byzantine society. Frequently quoting from contemporary accounts, Connor reveals what these women thought of themselves and their lives and how they remembered…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/31/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 396
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Plan of Byzantine Constantinople



Late antiquity (250-500 CE)


Introduction : Thekla



Ascetic women and religious life in early Christianity : Macrina



Pilgrimage : Egeria



Female imperial authority : empresses of the Theodosian House : Galla Placidia



Early Byzantium (500-843)


Introduction : the problematic for a study of Byzantine women



Sinners and saints : women at risk : Mary of Egypt



Women and artistic patronage : Anicia Juliana



The challenge of Theodora



Ordinary women in the orbit of Theodore of Sykeon



The middle Byzantine period (843-1204)


Introduction : women, the faith in icons, and the triumph of orthodoxy



Women's monasticism : Irene of Chrysobalanton



Women in art : the Byzantine image of female sanctity : Helena



Imperial women and marriage : Zoe



The world of Anna Komnene : Anna's passionate voice in the Alexiad



Late Byzantium (1204-1453)


Introduction : women's work



Founding mothers and the testimony of the typika : Theodora Synadene



Epilogue : the "lady of the Mongols"



List of Byzantine emperors and empresses