Unrivalled influence women and empire in Byzantium / [electronic resource] :
Judith Herrin.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
- xix, 328 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Women in Byzantium -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach -- Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity -- Unrivalled influence : mothers and daughters in the medieval Greek world -- "Femina Byzantina" : the council in Trullo on women -- Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women -- The imperial feminine in Byzantium -- Political power and Christian faith in Byzantium : the case of Irene (regent 780-90, emperor 797-802) -- Moving bones : evidence of political burials from medieval Constantinople -- The many empresses of the Byzantine court (and all their attendants) -- Theophano : considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess -- Toleration and repression in the Byzantine family : gender problems -- The icon corner in medieval Byzantium -- Marriage : a fundamental element of imperial statecraft -- Index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781400845217 (electronic bk.)
Women--History--Byzantine Empire--Middle Ages, 500-1500. Women--Social conditions.--Byzantine Empire Women and religion--Byzantine Empire. Upper class women--Byzantine Empire.