Byzantine women : varieties of experience 800-1200 / edited by Lynda Garland.

Other author Garland, Lynda, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.
Descriptionxix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPublications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London ; 8
Publications (King's College London. Centre for Hellenic Studies) ; 8. ^A563348
Contents Changing functions of monasteries for women during Byzantine iconoclasm / Judith Herrin -- Kassia the Nun c.810-c.865 : an appreciation / Anna M. Silvas -- Propriety, practicality and pleasure : the parameters of women's dress in Byzantium, A.D. 1000-1200 / Timothy Dawson -- Taxing Sophronia's son-in-law : representations of women in provincial documents / Leonora Neville -- Mary 'of Alania' : woman and empress between two worlds / Lynda Garland & Stephen Rapp -- Middle Byzantine family values and Anna Komnene's Alexiad / Dion C. Smythe -- Women in Byzantine novels of the twelfth century : an interplay between norm and fantasy / Corinne Jouanno -- Street life in Constantinople : women and the carnivalesque / Lynda Garland -- Imperial women and entertainment at the middle Byzantine court / Lynda Garland.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-213) and index.
LCCN 2006016617
ISBN075465737X (alk. paper)
ISBN9780754657378

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