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Nov 20, 2002 · Byzantine Women and Their World [Kalavrezou, Ioli, Laiou, Angeliki E., Walker, Alicia, Gittings, Elizabeth A., Heintz, Molly Fulghum, Pentcheva, Bissera V.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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- Ioli Kalavrezou
Jan 6, 2011 · by Lynda Garland (Author) 4.2 6 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204.
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- The Role of Aristocratic Women
- Working Women
- Women's Rights
- Famous Byzantine Women
Unlike in many other medieval cultures, Byzantine history, as written by the people of the period themselves, almost exclusively focuses on the exaggerated deeds and misdemeanours of emperors along with a separate and equally problematic literatureon saints and squabbles over religious doctrine. Social history is almost entirely neglected and what ...
As in most ancient cultures, the women we know most about in Byzantium are those who belonged to the upper classes. One event which greatly affected the role of all women in Byzantine society, though, was the increasing prominence of Christianitythrough the centuries, as here summarised by the historian L. Garland: To better ensure a girl remained ...
Women who had to earn a living worked in the agricultural, retail, manufacturing (especially textiles and silk) and hospitality industries. Some of the known jobs which could be performed by women included those of the weavers, bakers, cooks, innkeepers, washerwomen, midwives, medical practitioners, money-lenders and bath keepers. Many of these job...
Women had certain rights regarding property. A wife could not be separated from her dowry and daughters could inherit an equal portion of the family estate with their brothers if no specific will was made. If a husband died, his wife became the official guardian of the children. Women could, then, become landowners in their own right, head a househ...
Byzantium has a long history and it involves many women of note. Perhaps the first Byzantine woman to achieve lasting fame is Helena (born c. 250 CE), the mother of Constantine I, who famously embarked on a pilgrimage to Jerusalemwhere she built several churches, notably the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and gave out money to the worthy and ...
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Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows.
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Mar 11, 2003 · Byzantine Women and Their World. by Ioli Kalavrezou. Contributions by Angeliki E. Laiou, Alicia Walker, Elizabeth A. Gittings, Molly Fulghum Heintz and Bissera V. Pentcheva. A&AePortal. 336 Pages, 8.50 x 11.00 in, 154 b-w + 124 color illus. Paperback.
Dec 31, 2004 · Paperback. $55.00. On detailed inspection, sources relating to the Byzantine empire do contain significant reference to the position and role of women in society. In this study Carolyn Connor presents a window into the `lives, occupations, beliefs, and social roles of Byzantine women' from Late Antiquity, AD 250, to the Fall of Constantinople ...
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- Carolyn L. Connor
This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the walls of churches to women’s poetry and histories, examining for the first time the lives,...
