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Record Number:
13250
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Vinson , Martha P.
Contributor(s):
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.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Anthony the Younger, Saint
Byzantium
Empresses
Gender
Hagiography
Iconoclasm
Ignatios, Patriarch of Constantinople
Masculinity
Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople
Politics
Propaganda
Submissiveness
Theodora, Saint and Wife of Theophilos, Byzantine Emperor
Women in Religion
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Eastern Mediterranean
Century:
9
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Year of Publication:
1998.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
03782506