Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Record Number: 16894
Author(s)/Creator(s): Laiou , Angeliki E.
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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. LaiouVariorum Collected Studies Series. Ashgate, 1992. Pages 59 - 102. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
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Article Type: Essay
Subject (See Also): Administration Byzantium Choumnaina Palaiologina, Irene- Eulogia, Abbess of the Double Monastery Philanthropos Soter Doukaina, Irene, Byzantine Empress, Wife of Alexios I Komnenos Family Monasticism Noble Women Orthodox Eastern Church Typika, Monastic Reg
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Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
Century: 11- 12- 13- 14- 15
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Year of Publication: 1992.
Language: English
ISSN/ISBN: 0860783227