"This book accompanies the first exhibition to explore the lives of Byzantine women through their representation in material and literary culture. It features nearly two hundred works of art gathered from premier collections in North America by the organizers at Harvard University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum." -- BOOK JACKET
Collection
Carol Westfall Collection
Lexicon
Search Terms
art--byzantine, women in art
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalog
Book Details
Author
Ioli Kalavrezou
Publisher
Harvard University Art Museums, Yale University Press
Place Published
City
Cambridge, New Haven, CT
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States of America
Continent
North America
Date Published
2003
Call No.
N6250.K27
ISBN
300096984, 9780300096989
Notes
Length: 335
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
Women in the Visual Record of Byzantium / Ioli Kalavrezou --
Women in the History of Byzantium / Angeliki E. Laiou --
Women as Embodiments of Civic Life / Elizabeth A. Gittings --
Dignity, Power, and Piety / Elizabeth A. Gittings --
The Virgin of Constantinople: Power and Belief / Bissera V. Pentcheva --
The Art and Craft of Earning a Living / Molly Fulghum Heintz --
A Space "Rich in Blessing" / Alicia Walker --
Wife and Husband: "A Golden Team" / Alicia Walker --
Enhancing the Body, Neglecting the Soul? / Alicia Walker --
Magic, Medicine, and Prayer / Molly Fulghum Heintz --
App. Byzantine Empresses.
