Byzantine women
Subtitle: varieties of experience 800-1200
By: edited by Lynda Garland
Contributors: Garland, Lynda, 1955-
Series: Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London -- 8; Publications (King's College (University of London). Centre for Hellenic Studies) -- 8
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot [England]; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Women -- Byzantine Empire; Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-213) and index
Table of contents: title: Changing functions of monasteries for women during Byzantine iconoclasm / Judith Herrin; title: Kassia the Nun c.810-c.865 : an appreciation / Anna M. Silvas; title: Propriety, practicality and pleasure : the parameters of women's dress in Byzantium, A.D. 1000-1200 / Timothy Dawson; title: Taxing Sophronia's son-in-law : representations of women in provincial documents / Leonora Neville; title: Mary 'of Alania' : woman and empress between two worlds / Lynda Garland & Stephen Rapp; title: Middle Byzantine family values and Anna Komnene's Alexiad / Dion C. Smythe; title: Women in Byzantine novels of the twelfth century : an interplay between norm and fantasy / Corinne Jouanno; title: Street life in Constantinople : women and the carnivalesque / Lynda Garland; title: Imperial women and entertainment at the middle Byzantine court / Lynda Garland