The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500Cambridge University Press, 13.07.1996 - 143 Seiten What kind of lives did women in the Byzantine empire lead? Just how subservient were they in so male-dominated a society? In this collection of biographies Donald M. Nicol uncovers the unexpected fact that in the later years of the empire, at least, some aristocratic women enjoyed influence and exercised initiative. The ten ladies whose lives are described here did not complain of male oppression: instead, despite the conventions of caste and court, they found an outlet for their talents in religion, patronage, friendship and scholarship. They left a lasting influence on the society in which they lived. The story of their achievements offers new perspectives on the Byzantine empire, and a fascinating insight into the lives of women in past times. |
Inhalt
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ANNA OF SAVOY REGENT AND EMPRESS 1341C 1365 | 82 |
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| 110 | |
HELENA CANTACUZENE KOMMENE EMPRESS OF TREBIZOND DIED C 1463 | 120 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 126 |
INDEX | 137 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alexios Andronicus Andronikos II Palaiologos Angevin Anna Notaras Anna of Savoy Anna Palaiologina Anna's Arta Babinger basilissa Bessarion brother Byzantine Empire Byzantine Family Byzantine society Byzantium Charles of Anjou Christian church convent crowned CSHB D. M. Nicol daughter death Despotate of Epiros Didymoteichon died Doukas dowry Eirene Eirene's Emperor Andronikos Emperor in Constantinople Emperor John Emperor Michael Empress Anna Eulogia Family of Kantakouzenos father George Branković Greek Helena husband Italy John Cantacuzene John Palaiologos known Komnenos ladies Laiou later Latin letters lived Loukas Notaras Manfred of Sicily Manfred's Manuel manuscript Mara Branković Mara's marriage married Michael VIII Milutin monastery monastic monk Montferrat mother Nicaea Nikephoros Gregoras Orthodox faith Pachymeres Palamas Paris Patriarch of Constantinople Planoudes Pope princess Princess of Taranto Raoulaina regent Roman Serbia sister Smederevo sons spiritual stantinople Sultan Mehmed Thamar Theodora Theoleptos Thessalonica Thrace throne Trani Trebizond Turkish Turks Venetian Venice widow wife
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 39 - Saints and Sainthood in the Early Palaiologan Period," in The Byzantine Saint, University of Birmingham Fourteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, ed.
Seite 37 - DM NICOL, The byzantine reaction to the second council of Lyons, 1274, Studies in Church History VII, Cambridge 1971, 113146; R.
Seite 26 - The Relations of Charles of Anjou with Nikephoros of Epiros» (Byzantinische Forschungen, Internationale Zeitschrift far Byzantinistik, Band IV, Amsterdam 1972, p.
Seite 63 - A Constantinopolitan Double Monastery of the Fourteenth Century: The Philanthropic Saviour," Byzantine Studies/ Etudes byzantines 10 (1983), 81-7.
Seite 103 - Venice needed a church of their own where they could worship in their own language.
Seite 27 - He then transferred all these claims, and the suzerainty over the principality of Achaia, the duchy of Athens, the kingdom of Albania, and the province of...
Seite 45 - She quotes not only from the Scriptures but also from Hesiod, Homer, Diogenes Laertius, Dionysios of Halicarnassos, Euripides and Strabo.
Seite 123 - Helena to pay him the sum of 15,000 ducats within the space of three days or suffer the same fate as her husband.
Seite 5 - The canonical age for marriage was twelve for a girl and fourteen (or sixteen) for a boy.
Seite 19 - Louis's brother, Charles of Anjou, had been nominated as the papal champion against Manfred and his 'brood of vipers'.
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