Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and index.
Ascetic women and religious life in early Christianity -- Pilgrimage -- Female imperial authority -- Sinners and saints -- Women and artistic patronage -- The challenge of Theodora -- Ordinary women in the orbit of Theodore of Sykeon -- Women's monasticism -- Women in art -- Imperial women and marriage -- The world of Anna Komnene -- Founding mothers and the testimony of the Typika -- Epilogue