Female founders in Byzantium and beyond
By: edited by Lioba Theis, Margaret Mullett, and Michael Grünbart ; with Galina Fingarova and Matthew Savage
Series: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte -- Bd. 60/61; Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte -- Bd. 60/61.
Publisher: Böhlau
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Wien :
Language: ger; eng; fre
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9783205788409
Subjects: Women benefactors; Congresses; History; Women; Social conditions; Church history; Civilization
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference held September 2008 at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributions in English, German, and French.
Table of contents: title: Female founders; title: Das Projekt : Netzerke oder Seilschaften? / Lioba Theis; title: Female founders; title: Das Konzept : Zu Stiftungshandlungen in der byzantinischen Welt / Michael Grünbart; title: Visibility of female founders : the case of Ancient Greece / Marion Meyer; title: Male constructions of female identities : authority and power in the Byzantine Greek lives of monastic foundresses /Stavroula Constantinou; title: Making a name : reputation and imperial founding and refounding in Constantinople / Liz James; title: Asceticism and hospitality as patronage in the Late Antique Holy Land : the example of Paula and Melania the Elder / Marlena Whiting; title: Do good in they good pleasure unto Zion : the patronage of Aelia Eudokia in Jerusalem / Konstantin M. Klein; title: The image of the Empress Theodora as Patron / Ulrike Unterweger; title: Die Stifterinnentätigkeit der Kaiserin Sophia : Impuls für die Gleichberechtigung mit dem Kaiser? / Judith Radlegger; title: Female "donors" in eighth-century Egypt / Cornelia Römer; title: Patronage in the Patria, matronage and maternity / Eirini Panou; title: Deconstructing "donors" in medieval southern Italy / Linda Safran; title: The adventures of a provincial female founder : Glykeria and the rhetoric of female weakness / Leonora Neville; title: La rhétorique au secours du patrimoine : Psellos, les impériatrices en les monastères / Eric Limousin; title: The sebastokratorissa Irene as patron / Elizabeth Jeffreys; title: Female church founders : the agency of the village widow in Late Byzantium / Sharon E. J. Gerstel and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti; title: Le don de l'église : une affaire de couple? / Tania Kambourova; title: Female donors in thirteenth-century wall paintings in Cappadocia : an overview / Nota Karamaouna; title: Auf der Suche nach weiblichem Stiftertum im "Prosopographischen Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit"; title: eine erste Auswertung / Sylvie Herl; title: Female patronage in the Palaiologan era : icons, minor arts and manuscripts / Alice-Mary Talbot; title: Klostergründungen russischer Fürstinnen im dreizehnten Jahrhundert / Anna Michalowska; title: Die Stifterin par excellence : zur Deutung des Stifterbildes in der Marienkirche von Apollonia, Albanien / Galina Fingarova; title: Theodora Raoulaina als Stifterin und Patronin / Alexander Riehle; title: Women's authority in death : the patronage of aristocratic laywomen in Late Byzantium / Sarah Brooks; title: Frauen als Gründerinnen von Doppelklöstern im byzantinischen Reich / Ekaterini Mitsiou; title: A late Byzantine patroness : Helena Kantakouzene Palaiologina / Florin Leonte; title: Notes on female piety in the hermitages of the Ohrid  and Prespa region : the case of Mali Grad / Saška Bogevska; title: The Meteora Icon of the Incredulity of Thomas reconsidered / Fani Gargova; title: I seek not my own : is there a female mode of charity and patronage? / Dionysios Stathakopoulos; title: The epistles of princess Jelena Balšić : an example of female cultural patronage in the late medieval Balkans / Alexandra Vukovich; title: Sins of female founders in Late Byzantium and Trebizond / Petras Melichar; title: Female founders : in conclusion : the gynamics of foundation / Margaret Mullett.