Questions of gender in Byzantine society /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013] |
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| Description: | x, 218 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9971359 |
Table of Contents:
- An introduction to questions of gender in Byzantium
- Perceptions of Byzantine virtus in southern Italy, from the 8th to 11th centuries
- 'Till death do us part'?: family life in Byzantine monasteries
- Psalmody and Socrates: female literacy in the Byzantine empire
- Changing conceptions of Mary in 6th-century Byzantium: the Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist
- Ghosts in the machine: the lives and deaths of Constantinian imperial women
- Regarding women on the throne: representations of Empress Eirene
- The brides of 1420: men looking at women's bodies
- Bearding Byzantium: masculinity, eunuchs and the Byzantine life course
- The spiritual valency of gender in Byzantine society
- Bibliography
- Index
