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Woman with Scroll, An Early Byzantine Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Google Classroom. About. Hear Byzantine art historians Evan Freeman and Anne McClanan unlock the meanings of a marble sculpture from the past, showing an early Byzantine/Late Roman woman holding a scroll.
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- The Role of Aristocratic Women
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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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Title: Statuette of a Woman. Date: 5th–6th century. Culture: Byzantine. Medium: Copper alloy. Dimensions: Overall: 7 15/16 x 3 11/16 x 2 9/16 in. (20.2 x 9.3 x 6.5 cm) Classification: Metalwork-Bronze. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1949. Accession Number: 49.60.5
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The Byzantine Empire was a monarchy, and as in many other monarchies, the royal system allowed for women to participate in politics as monarchs in their own name or as regents in place of a husband or son. Many royal women are known to have participated in politics during the centuries. Among them were female monarchs like Pulcheria, Irene of ...
Hear Byzantine art historians Evan Freeman and Anne McClanan unlock the meanings of a marble sculpture from the past, showing an early Byzantine/Late Roman w...
Title: Head of a Woman. Date: 5th century. Culture: Byzantine. Medium: Marble. Dimensions: Overall: 11 3/16 x 6 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (28.4 x 17.2 x 20.6 cm) Classification: Sculpture-Stone. Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1947. Accession Number: 47.100.52
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, April 5, 2017 - May 11, 2022.
