Women and Religious Life in Byzantium

by: Talbot, A.-M.

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Women and religious life in Byzantium

Author:Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot

Summary:The title chosen for this volume of collected studies is deliberately ambiguous. Many of the selected articles do indeed focus on the religious life of Byzantine women. Others treat the theme of women's lives more broadly, and yet others examine the religious life of men.

Series:
Collected studies, CS733

Contents:
Women
Byzantine women, saints' lives and social welfare
Women and iconoclasm / with Alexander Kazhdan
Women and Mt. Athos
Empress Theodora Palaiologina, wife of Michael III
Female sanctity in Byzantium
Family cults in Byzantium: the case of St. Theodora of Thessalonike
The posthumous miracles of St. Photeine / with additional notes by Robert Ousterhout
The Byzantine cult of St. Photeine / with Alexander Kazhdan
Old wine in new bottles: the rewriting of saints' lives in the Palaeologan period
An introduction to Byzantine monasticism
A comparison of the monastic experience of Byzantine men and women
The Byzantine family and the monastery
Healing shrines in late Byzantine Constantinople
Womens's space in Byzantine monasteries
Affirmative action in the 13th c.: an act of John Apokaukos concerning the Blachernitissa Monastery in Arta
Late Byzantine nuns: by choice or necessity?
Bluestocking nuns: intellectual life in the convents of late Byzantium
Addenda and corrigenda

Women and Religious Life in Byzantium

by: Talbot, A.-M.

• ISBN-13: 9780860788737 / 978-0-86078-873-7
• ISBN-03: 0860788733 / 0-86078-873-3
• Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2001

Price: 105,00 EURO

1 copy in stock