ISBN:
9781351953726
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London v.8
Parallel Title:
Print version Garland, Lynda Byzantine Women : Varieties of Experience 800-1200
DDC:
305.42094950902
Abstract:
"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Contributors" -- "List of Figures and Plates" -- "List of Abbreviations" -- "Editorâs Introduction" -- "1. Changing Functions of Monasteries for Women during Byzantine Iconoclasm" -- "2. Kassia the Nun c.810âc.865: an Appreciation" -- "3. Propriety, Practicality and Pleasure: the Parameters of Womenâs Dress in Byzantium, A.D. 1000â1200" -- "4. Taxing Sophroniaâs Son-in-law: Representations of Women in Provincial Documents" -- "5. Mary âof Alaniaâ: Woman and Empress Between Two Worlds" -- "6. Middle Byzantine Family Values and Anna Komneneâs Alexiad" -- "7. Women in Byzantine Novels of the Twelfth Century: an Interplay Between Norm and Fantasy" -- "8. Street Life in Constantinople: Women and the Carnivalesque" -- "9. Imperial Women and Entertainment at the Middle Byzantine Court" -- "Bibliography
