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Women and religious life in Byzantium / Alice-Mary Talbot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry.
- Series:
- Collected studies ; CS733.
- Collected studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Religious life--Byzantine Empire.
- Women.
- Women in Christianity--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Women in Christianity.
- History.
- Christian women saints--Byzantine Empire--Biography.
- Christian women saints.
- Women--Religious life.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire--Church history.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : portrait ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]
- Contents:
- Women
- Byzantine women, saints' lives and social welfare
- Women and iconoclasm / with Alexander Kazhdan
- Women and Mt. Athos
- Empress Theodora Palaiologina, wife of Michael III
- Female sanctity in Byzantium
- Family cults in Byzantium: the case of St. Theodora of Thessalonike
- The posthumous miracles of St. Photeine / with additional notes by Robert Ousterhout
- The Byzantine cult of St. Photeine / with Alexander Kazhdan
- Old wine in new bottles: the rewriting of saints' lives in the Palaeologan period
- An introduction to Byzantine monasticism
- A comparison of the monastic experience of Byzantine men and women
- The Byzantine family and the monastery
- Healing shrines in late Byzantine Constantinople
- Women's space in Byzantine monasteries
- Affirmative action in the 13th c. : an act of John Apokaukos concerning the Blachernitissa Monastery in Arta
- Late Byzantine nuns : by choice or necessity?
- Bluestocking nuns : intellectual life in the convents of late Byzantium
- Addenda and corrigenda.
- Notes:
- Reprint of previously published works; one chapter translated into English from the original Italian.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0860788733
- OCLC:
- 187644003
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