Despite the fact that Byzantine culture was definitely patriarchal, women were considered spiritually equal to men and played an important role. Albeit behind the scenes, in politics and economics. Th
This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to invest
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 past decade, similar studies of Byzanti
