Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 46729
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Mitsiou , Ekaterini, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, and John Skylitzes,
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  • Title: The Assault of a Varangian Soldier on a Byzantine Woman in Winter Quarters in Western Asia Minor
  • Source: Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook.   Edited by Claudia Rapp and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller .  V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2023.  Pages 361 - 363. The text is from Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis historiarum, ed. Hans Thurn, CFHB 5 (Berlin and New York, 1973) 394, 70–77. The translation is from John Skylitzes, A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057, transl. by John Wortley (Cambridge, 2010) 372. That translation has been modified by Ekaterini Mitsiou and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller. The book is available open access at: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.14220/9783737013413
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Byzantium Rape Self-Defense Sexual Violence Varangians, People Vikings
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
  • Century: 11
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  • Author's Affiliation: Austrian Academy of Sciences [Preiser-Kapeller]; University of Vienna [Mitsiou and Preiser-Kapeller]
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  • Year of Publication: 2023.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9783847113416 (print) ; 9783737013413 (online)