BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library)· 2013
Female founders in Byzantium and beyond
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Short summary
This volume explores the independent influence of women in the Byzantine Empire through their patronage of churches and monasteries, including donations and decoration.
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Key points
- Focuses on women's patronage of churches and monasteries in the Byzantine Empire.
- Includes founding, re-founding, decoration, and smaller donations.
- Analyzes the legal and economic potential women exercised for independent influence.
- Adopts a gender-specific viewpoint to fill a gap in recent gender research.
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Abstract
This volume presents the results of a scholarly meeting which focused on the patronage of women in the Byzantine Empire. In their scope, the articles address broadly not only the founding or re-founding of churches and monasteries, but also their rich decoration, as well as numerous smaller donations. In spite of increased attention to gender research in recent years, a comparative treatment of the legal and economic potentiel that women in Byzantium could exercise in order to exert independent influence has been lacking; thus a gender-specific viewpoint for the volume was intentionally chosen.
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