Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8562
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Garland , Lynda.
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  • Title: The Eye of the Beholder: Byzantine Imperial Women and Their Public Image from Zoe Porphyrogenita to Euphrosyne Kamaterissa Doukaina (1028-1203) [analysis of the image and ceremonial role of empresses and women in the royal family based primarily on historians' accounts; empresses discussed include Zoe, Theodora, Aikaterina, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Maria of Alania, Eirene, Anna Dalassena, Piroshka-Eirene, Bertha-Eirene of Sulzbach, and Mary of Antioch].
  • Source: Byzantion 64, 1 ( 1994): Pages 19 - 39. and Byzantion: Revue Internationale des Études Byzantines 64, 2 (1994): 261-313.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Beauty Byzantium Clothing Empresses Marriage Patronage, Literary Politics Princesses Ritual Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
  • Century: 11-12
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of New England
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  • Year of Publication: 1994.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 03782506