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Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Contributors 10 Acknowledgements 12 List of Abbreviations 14 1 An Introduction to Questions of Gender in Byzantium 16 2 Perceptions of Byzantine Virtus in Southern Italy, from the Eighth to Eleventh Centuries 26 3 ‘Till Death Do Us Part?’: Family Life in Byzantine Monasteries 44 4 Psalmody and Socrates: Female Literacy in the Byzantine Empire 72 5 Changing Conceptions of Mary in Sixth-Century Byzantium: The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist 92 6 Ghosts in the Machine: The Lives and Deaths of Constantinian Imperial Women 108 7 Regarding Women on the Throne: Representations of Empress Eirene 128 8 The Brides of 1420: Men Looking at Women’s Bodies 148 9 Bearding Byzantium: Masculinity, Eunuchs and the Byzantine Life Course 168 10 The Spiritual Valency of Gender in Byzantine Society 182 Bibliography 198 Index 228

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Author

Garland, Lynda; Neil, Bronwen;

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction