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1. Record Number: 44902
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Title : Laws of Justinian Concerning Same-Sex Acts and Blasphemy []

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Year of Publication: 2020.

2. Record Number: 44903
Author(s): Justinian I, ,
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Title : Laws of Justinian Concerning Same-Sex Acts and Blasphemy

Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Eugene Smelyansky . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 245 - 248.
Year of Publication: 2020.

3. Record Number: 30403
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Title : Anonymous Miracles of the Pege

Source: Miracle Tales from Byzantium Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 12. Harvard University Press, 2012. Pages 204 - 297.
Year of Publication: 2012.

4. Record Number: 11013
Author(s): Cantara, Linda
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Title : Holy Eunuchs! Masculinity and Eunuch Saints in Byzantium [In this brief overview, the author concentrates on the tenth century "Life" of Ignatios the Younger, twice patriarch of Constantinople (847-858 and 867-878). Tougher argues that the hagiographer treats Ignatios as a typical holy man with just one mention of his castration. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages. Edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis . Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. University of Wales Press, 2004. Pages 93 - 108.
Year of Publication: 2004.

5. Record Number: 8487
Author(s): Cotsonis, John.
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Title : The Virgin and Justinian on Seals of the "Ekklesiekdikoi" of Hagia Sophia [The author explores the various meanings carried by the seals made for the clerical tribunal from Hagia Sophia, which present the standing figures of the Virgin and the Emperor Justinian, holding between them a model of the church Hagia Sophia. The church building in part signifies a place of mercy and refuge. Justinian was not only the builder of the church but also the patron of the clerical tribunal. The Virgin was the most powerful intermediary and an object of hope for the penitent and those in trouble. The clerics from the tribunal turned to the Virgin Mary and Justinian for help in coming to just and merciful decisions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Full Text via JSTOR) 56 (2002): 41-55. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 4769
Author(s): Carr, Annemarie Weyl.
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Title : Threads of Authority: The Virgin's Veil in the Middle Ages [because Mary was believed to have been assumed into Heaven, there were only secondary relics of her; mostly these were items of clothing; beginning in Constantinople, these relics were associated with the protection of cities and rulers; similar uses of Marian relics and images for the protection of rulers can be found in the West at least as early as the time of Charlemagne].

Source: Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture. Edited by Stewart Gordon . Palgrave, 2001. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 27., ( 2001): Pages 59 - 93.
Year of Publication: 2001.

7. Record Number: 10209
Author(s): Laiou, Angeliki E.
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Title : Women in the Marketplace of Constantinople 10th - 14th Centuries [The author surveys the evidence for women's activities in the market as hawkers, shop owners, investors, textile workers, and other roles. Laiou also explores the links between these economic activities and both dowry and family networks. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography, and Everyday Life. Edited by Nevra Necipoglu. The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies, and Cultures, 400-1453, Volume 33 Medieval Mediterranean, 33. Brill, 2001. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 27., ( 2001): Pages 261 - 273.
Year of Publication: 2001.

8. Record Number: 10210
Author(s): Talbot, Alice-Mary.
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Title : Building Activity in Constantinople under Andronikos II: The Role of Women Patrons in the Construction and Restoration of Monasteries [The author notes the substantial number of both female patrons and women's monasteries during this period. The patrons are connected to the royal family by blood or marriage. Individuals profiled include Theodora Raoulaina, Maria Palaiologina, Theodora Synadene, Irene Choumnaina Palaiologina, and Maria Doukaina Komnene Branaina Palaiologina. The women were all widows at the time of their donations and gave substantial gifts for a monastery to which they could retire and where they could bury their family members. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

9. Record Number: 5884
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Title : The Theotokos as Protectress: The "Akathistos Hymn" and the Siege of Constantinople

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 27., ( 2001): Pages 4
Year of Publication: 2001.

10. Record Number: 5887
Author(s): Papanastasiou, Areti.
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Title : Saint Eudokia the Empress [The author argues that the tenth century plaque of Eudokia in the Camii church represents not Eudokia Baiane, wife of Leo VI, but Fabia Eudokia (died 612 C.E.), wife of Herakleios].

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 27., ( 2001): Pages 24
Year of Publication: 2001.

11. Record Number: 8677
Author(s): Pentcheva, Bissera V.
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Title : Rhetorical Images of the Virgin: The Icon of the "Usual Miracle" at the Blachernai [The author connects the icon of Mary at the Blachernai (which was revealed every Friday by the miraculous raising of a silk cover) with a new image-type in which Mary raises her hands in prayer and has a medallion that contains the Christ child hovering on her chest. The author argues that this image was influenced by Neoplatonic ideas to represent both the presence of the Holy Spirit and the embodiment of the incarnation. The author also connects the new image type to the Komnenoi dynasty which had various political reasons to champion orthodoxy. In the Appendix the author surveys publications on seals to identify instances of the orans Virgin with the hovering medallion. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics , 38., ( 2000): Pages 34 - 55.
Year of Publication: 2000.

12. Record Number: 5356
Author(s): Cotsonis, John.
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Title : The Virgin and Justinian on Seals of the "Ekdikoi"

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 26., ( 2000): Pages 31
Year of Publication: 2000.

13. Record Number: 5360
Author(s): Connor, Carolyn L.
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Title : A Sense of Family: Monastic Portraits in the Lincoln College Typikon

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 26., ( 2000): Pages 107 - 108.
Year of Publication: 2000.

14. Record Number: 3720
Author(s): Krausmüller, Dirk.
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Title : Divine Sex: Patriarch Methodios's Concept of Virginity

Source: Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-First Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997. Edited by Liz James. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Publications 6 . Variorum (Ashgate Publishing), 1999. Byzantion , 69., 2 ( 1999): Pages 57 - 65.
Year of Publication: 1999.

15. Record Number: 5350
Author(s): Pentcheva, Bissera V.
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Title : A New Image of the Virgin in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Constantinople [a new image of the Virgin appeared on coins in the mid-eleventh century; she appears with her hands raised in prayer and on her chest there is a medallion depicting the blessing Christ Child; the image is sometimes called the Virgin "Episkepsis" (Visitation and Protection), although several other types ("Blanchernitissa," "Panagiotissa," "Playtera," and "Znamenie") are also associated with this iconographic representation].

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 25., ( 1999): Pages 34
Year of Publication: 1999.

16. Record Number: 3779
Author(s): Nicholas, Karen S.
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Title : Countesses as Rulers in Flanders [The author surveys the activities of twelve countesses in Flanders; their personalities and circumstances varied widely but many displayed skillful diplomacy, keen support for women's religion, and concern for the welfare of their subjects].

Source: Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. Edited by Theodore Evergates . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 25., ( 1999): Pages 111 - 137.
Year of Publication: 1999.

17. Record Number: 4750
Author(s): Connor, Carolyn L.
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Title : Documents: The Epigram in the Church of Hagios Polyeuktos in Constantinople and Its Byzantine Response [the author argues that Anicia Juliana herself may have composed the seventy-six line epigram that was inscribed inside and outside her magnificent church; later building inscriptions as well as books reacted to her family pride, sumptuous descriptions, and learned rhetoric that was reflected in her influential encomium/dedication; the appendices include a transcription of the Greek epigram that was inscribed in Hagios Polyeuktos; an English translation of the epigram; the Greek epigrams that were inscribed in the church of Saint Euphemia, a church that Juliana refurbished; a transcription of the Greek epigram from the Vienna Dioscurides manuscript (cod. med. gr. 1, fol. 6 verso) which forms an acrostic on Juliana's name; a transcription of the Greek epigram on the frieze of the church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus built by Justin and Theodora shortly after Hagios Polyeuktos].

Source: Byzantion , 69., 2 ( 1999): Pages 479 - 527.
Year of Publication: 1999.

18. Record Number: 4745
Author(s): Vinson, Martha P.
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Title : Gender and Politics in the Post-Iconoclastic Period: The "Lives" of Anthony the Younger, the Empress Theodora, and the Patriarch Ignatios [the author argues that the "Life with Encomium of the Blessed and Holy Empress Theodora" and the "Life and Conduct of Saint Anthony the Younger" were written together to counter the iconoclast resentments, embodied in the aggressively masculine writings of Photios, against an iconophile government headed by a woman and surrounded by eunuch advisors; the author of the "Vita" of Saint Anthony uses an Aristotelian form of argumentation for the relative, placing the saint in the middle between lust and impotence, wanton aggression and effeminate cowardice, and other bi-polar extremes of gender stereotypes; the end result was a secularization of the ideas of sanctity and a reliance upon sex roles to characterize the saint].

Source: Byzantion , 68., 2 ( 1998): Pages 469 - 515.
Year of Publication: 1998.

19. Record Number: 1877
Author(s): Gerstel, Sharon E. J.
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Title : Saint Eudokia and the Imperial Household of Leo VI

Source: Art Bulletin (Full Text via JSTOR) 79, 4 (December 1997): 699-707. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

20. Record Number: 2284
Author(s): Shahid, Irfan.
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Title : The Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople: Who Built It and Why? [Suggests that both Justinian and his wife Theodora were responsible but had different motives. Theodora was moved by religious concerns while Justinian was worried about the outcome of the Persian War].

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 22., ( 1996): Pages 84
Year of Publication: 1996.

21. Record Number: 2447
Author(s): Ousterhout, Robert.
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Title : The Virgin of the Chora: An Image and Its Contexts [discussion of the mosaic icon of the Virgin in the church of the Chora Monastery in terms of its part in a decorative program that called upon a complex symbolism; also discusses the importance of the Virgin "orans" motif in the related images known as "Blachernitissa," "Episkepsis," and "Platytera"].

Source: The Sacred Image East and West. Edited by Robert Ousterhout and Leslie Brubaker . Illinois Byzantine Studies IV. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 22., ( 1996): Pages 91 - 109.
Year of Publication: 1995.

22. Record Number: 9534
Author(s): Laiou, Angeliki E.
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Title : The Festival of "Agathe": Comments on the Life of Constantinopolitan Women [The author examines a short treatise by Michael Psellos about the annual festival of Agathe in which women sang and danced near a church. Laiou argues that the women's activities which praised good cloth-making suggest that they were members of a female guild for carders, spinners, and weavers. The article was originally published in Byzantium 1 (1986): 111-122. Volume One was also titled Tribute to Andreas N. Stratos. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gender, Society, and Economic Life in Byzantium. Angeliki E. Laiou Variorum Collected Studies Series . Ashgate, 1992. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 22., ( 1996): Pages 111 - 122. Originally published in Byzantium 1 (1986): 111-122. Volume One was also titled Tribute to Andreas N. Stratos.
Year of Publication: 1992.

23. Record Number: 10216
Author(s): Talbot, Alice-Mary.
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Title : Empress Theodora Palaiologina, Wife of Michael VIII [The author argues that although Theodora was a dutiful wife who engaged in typical imperial activities, she spent her widowhood trying to distance herself from her husband. She had briefly acquiesced in her husband's acceptance of the Church of Rome. Perhaps in expiation, she devoted great efforts as a widow to female monastic endowments and charitable causes. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Full Text via JSTOR) 46 (1992): 295-303. Homo Byzantinus: Papers in Honor of Alexander Kazhdan. Link Info Reprinted in Women and Religious Life in Byzantium. By Alice-Mary Talbot. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Ashgate, 2001. Article 5.
Year of Publication: 1992.

24. Record Number: 6388
Author(s): Troubat, Olivier.
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Title : Maria di Borbone imperatrice di Costantinopoli [Louis I of Bourbon advanced his ambitions in the eastern Mediterranean by marrying his daughter Marie to Guy de Lusignan of Cyprus; after she was widowed, her brother Pierre married her to Robert, prince of Taranto; after being widowed a second time she ruled Morea-Achaia; she then retired to Naples where she was active in politics until her death in 1387; her nephew Louis II of Bourbon became her heir, maintaining a political role in the eastern Mediterranean until his death in 1410].

Source: Archivio Storico Italiano , 148., 546 ( 1990): Pages 739 - 765.
Year of Publication: 1990.

25. Record Number: 12741
Author(s): Featherstone, Jeffrey
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Title : Olga’s Visit to Constantinople [Princess Olga of Kiev’s conversion to Christianity and her baptism in Constantinople in the middle of the tenth century are events variously described in Slavonic, Byzantine, and Latin accounts. The article contains a translation of excerpt from the Book

Source: Harvard Ukrainian Studies , 14., 3 (December 1990): Pages 293 - 312.
Year of Publication: 1990.

26. Record Number: 28719
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Title : Virgin and Child with Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Irene

Source: Archivio Storico Italiano , 148., 546 ( 1990):
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Title : Diptych Panel, detail, Personification of Rome

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Title : Probus Magnus Panel

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29. Record Number: 45126
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Title : Frontispiece for the Rule of Saint Augustine and Constitutions of the Hospital of Notre Dame at Seclin

Source: Archivio Storico Italiano , 148., 546 ( 1990):
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