Title Questions of gender in Byzantine society / edited by Bronwen Neil and Lynda Garland

Published Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2013 Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing, [2013]

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Description x, 218 pages ; 24 cm Series ERA Collection Contents 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 Analysis Australian Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Sex role -- Byzantine Empire -- History. Women -- Byzantine Empire -- History. SUBJECT Byzantium http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80085269 -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642 Byzantium http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80085269 -- Religious life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007603 Byzantium http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80085269 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 Byzantium http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80085269 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 Author Garland, Lynda, 1955- Neil, Bronwen. LC no. 2013000828 ISBN 9781409447795 (hardback : alkaline paper)

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