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Unrivalled Influence - Women and Empire in Byzantium (Paperback)
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Unrivalled Influence - Women and Empire in Byzantium (Paperback)
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Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women
played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval
Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the
Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and
exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to
uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources,
Judith Herrin sheds light on the importance of marriage in imperial
statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial
court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters. She
looks at women's interactions with eunuchs, the in-between gender
in Byzantine society, and shows how women defended their rights to
hold land. Herrin describes how they controlled their inheritances,
participated in urban crowds demanding the dismissal of corrupt
officials, followed the processions of holy icons and relics, and
marked religious feasts with liturgical celebrations, market
activity, and holiday pleasures. The vivid portraits that emerge
here reveal how women exerted an unrivalled influence on the
patriarchal society of Byzantium, and remained active participants
in the many changes that occurred throughout the empire's
millennial history. Unrivalled Influence brings together Herrin's
finest essays on women and gender written throughout the long span
of her esteemed career. This volume includes three new essays
published here for the very first time and a new general
introduction by Herrin. She also provides a concise introduction to
each essay that describes how it came to be written and how it fits
into her broader views about women and Byzantium.
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