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Apr 6, 2018 · Aristocratic women in the Byzantine Empire, then, like in the earlier Western Roman Empire, were largely expected to marry, produce children and then look after them. Women also cared for the family home - specifically its property and servants. Girls, if they received education at all, were educated in the family home.
- Mark Cartwright
Book List. Byzantine Women by Lynda Garland (Editor) Call Number: HQ1147.B98 B98 2006. ISBN: 075465737X. Publication Date: 2006-09-01. This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the ...
- Naz Özkan
- 2009
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However, as feminism became increasingly accepted in the academic field, so the study of women's roles changed. Scholarship in the 1970s and 1980s, influenced by both feminism and Marxism, was concerned to uncover individual non-imperial women and their life histories, to set women in Byzantium into their legal and socio-economic contexts, and to explore the practical aspects of their lives ...
Mar 11, 2013 · This book explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. This book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, the book sheds light on the importance of marriage in ...
Jan 7, 2005 · The first section of chapter 13 constitutes the book’s conclusion, while the second section is devoted to a woman of late Byzantium, Mary Paleologina, sister of Emperor Andronicus II, who was sent as a bride to the khan of Mongols. The book has its share of typographical errors, repetitions and misconceptions.
- Stavroula Constantinou
The scientific study of the legal and economic status of women in the Byzantine Empire began in the second half of the 19th century and is currently intensively ongoing. The subject of study is both women in general and related issues of family and property law. The scarcity of surviving sources leads to diverse assessments of the place of ...
While it is but natural that imperial woman dominate our awareness of women's status in Byzantium (9), whose lifestyle would have Michael Angold (Bar International Series, 221 ; Oxford, 1984), 202-210 and see below n. 98. (5) Most comprehensive is the study of Joëlle Beauchamp, "La situation juri-
