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Questions of gender in Byzantine society
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- Creator
- edited by Bronwen Neil, Lynda Garland
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Farnham, Surrey, ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- x, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781409447795, 1409447790, 9781409447801, 1409447804, 9781409474494, 1409474496
- OCLC
- ocn815365279
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) and index.
- An Introduction to Questions of Gender in Byzantium / Bronwen Neil -- Perceptions of Byzantine Virtus in Southern Italy, from the Eighth to Eleventh Centuries / Paul Brown -- "Till Death do us Part?" : Family Life in Byzantine Monasteries / Lynda Garland -- Psalmody and Socrates : Female Literacy in the Byzantine Empire / Amelia R. Brown -- Changing Conceptions of Mary in Sixth-Century Byzantium : The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist / Sarah Gador-Whyte -- Ghosts in the Machine : The Lives and Deaths of Constantinian Imperial Women / Liz James -- Regarding Women on the Throne : Representations of Empress Eirene / Bronwen Neil -- The Brides of 1420 : Men Looking at Women's Bodies / Diana Gilliland Wright -- Bearding Byzantium : Masculinity, Eunuchs and the Byzantine Life Course / Shaun Tougher -- The Spiritual Valency of Gender in Byzantine Society / Damien Casey