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Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. Its primary aim is to present and analyse the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do. In this I am not breaking entirely new
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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.
- Naz Özkan
- 2009
Nov 20, 2020 · Summary. Gender in the Medieval Roman Empire has been rarely examined as such, which is odd given the prominent role played by ideas of gender in creating common images of “Byzantine” society.
Jan 4, 2002 · ABSTRACT. Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do.
- Lynda Garland
- London
- 1999
21 November 2012. PDF. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Research on Byzantine women has been skewed towards the lives of individual women, particularly empresses. However, things began to change as feminism became increasingly accepted in the academic field.
This book and its companion volume,valled Influence: Women Unri and Empire in Byzantium bring together forty years of research and , writing about the Byzantine Empire. Each chapter has been very lightly edited and notes selecting some of the most important, relevant new pub-lications have been added. At my publisher’s suggestion I have also ...
