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  1. Apr 6, 2018 · 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 Jerusalem where she built several churches, notably the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and gave out money to the worthy ...

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  2. The situation of women in the Byzantine Empire is a subject of scientific research that encompasses all available information about women, their environments, their networks, their legal status, etc., in the Byzantine Empire.

  3. What roles did women and eunuchs play in Byzantine society? How did Theodora change the Byzantine state in ways which were beneficial to women? The East-West Schism

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  5. Oct 27, 2015 · Normally she would stand down once her son was of an age to rule alone but one empress, Irene, became so used to the role that she ended up seizing power and ruling in her own right from 797 to 802. In few medieval societies have women exercised as much political power as in Byzantium.

  6. Apr 17, 2018 · Women did many jobs that men did but often provided specialised services as midwives, medical practitioners, washerwomen, cooks, matchmakers, actresses and, of course, as prostitutes. Women could own their own businesses if they had the means.

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  7. Oct 25, 2002 · Byzantine Women and Their World, the first exhibition of its kind, explores the representation of women during the span of the Byzantine Empire and assembles almost 200 objects including jewelry, icons, religious amulets, textiles, coins, and household items that date from the 4th through 15th centuries.

  8. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' fields of operation. This new research across a range of disciplines attempts to provide an analysis of the activities of and attitudes towards Byzantine women in this period.

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