Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 4498
Author(s): Gouma-Peterson, Thalia.
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Title : Gender and Power: Passages to the Maternal in Anna Komnene's "Alexiad"
Source: Full-text of the Alexiad in English (from the Medieval Sourcebook)
Year of Publication: 2000.
2. Record Number: 4497
Author(s): Reinsch, Diether R.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women's Literature in Byzantium? The Case of Anna Komnene [The author examines Anna's portrayal of powerful women who were actively involved in politics (Anna Dalassena, Irene Doukaina, Maria of Alania, and Anna Komnena herself)].
Source: Full-text of the Alexiad in English (from the Medieval Sourcebook)
Year of Publication: 2000.
3. Record Number: 1741
Author(s): Hill, Barbara
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Title : The ideal Imperial Komnenian Women [drawing upon funeral orations and speeches, the author analyzes the female virtues praised before the emperor (beauty, piety, fertility, and modesty) and those for a female patron (self-control, learning, and wisdom)].
Source: Byzantinische Forschungen , 23., ( 1996):  Pages 7 - 18. Revised papers that were originally read at the session entitled "Komnenian Culture" at the Twentieth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on September 21, 1994
Year of Publication: 1996.
4. Record Number: 1745
Author(s): Hill, Barbara
Contributor(s):
Title : A Vindication of the Rights of Women to Power by Anna Komnene [on the active role of Anna Dalassena and Irene Doukaina].
Source: Byzantinische Forschungen , 23., ( 1996):  Pages 45 - 53. Revised papers that were originally read at the session entitled "Komnenian Culture" at the Twentieth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on September 21, 1994
Year of Publication: 1996.
5. Record Number: 1158
Author(s): Hill, Barbara
Contributor(s):
Title : A Vindication of the Rights of Women to Power by Anna Komnene [treatment of Anna's grandmother, Anna Dalassena, and her mother, Irene Doukaina, in the "Alexiad"].
Source: Full-text of the Alexiad in English (from the Medieval Sourcebook)
Year of Publication: 1995.
6. Record Number: 9533
Author(s): Laiou, Angeliki E.
Contributor(s):
Title : Observations on the Life and Ideology of Byzantine Women [The author briefly examines texts written by Byzantine women including wills. She looks at greater length at women who endowed monasteries and at the lives women led within convents. The article was originally published in Byzantinische Forschungen 9 (1985): 59-102. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gender, Society, and Economic Life in Byzantium. Angeliki E. Laiou Variorum Collected Studies Series .   Ashgate, 1992.  Pages 59 - 102. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 1992.