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Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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After an introductory general essay on the life cycle and status of
women in Byzantine society, this volume focuses on female religious
life, with particular emphasis on the role of convents - as
spiritual sanctuary, refuge for women in need, or provider of
charitable services. Several essays compare Byzantine nunneries
with male monasteries, pointing out the relatively small size and
lack of intellectual and artistic activity in convents, and more
rigorous rules of enclosure and stability. Such phenomena as double
monasteries, the conversion of a monastery to a nunnery, and
women's economic and spiritual ties with Mount Athos are also
examined. Other articles investigate issues of female sanctity and
sanctification, analyzing types of women saints, women during the
era of iconoclasm, and the role of the family in promoting the cult
of a holy woman. In addition there are studies on healing shrines
in Constantinople in the middle Byzantine and Palaiologan periods,
and the resurgence of hagiographical writing in the late Byzantine
era, particularly the reworking of the vitae of older saints.
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