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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-14 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-11 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this t
Language: en
Pages: 233
Pages: 233
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-23 - Publisher: Routledge
Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared regularly in the
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-25 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses—Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora—changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration
Language: en
Pages: 309
Pages: 309
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs
