Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025–1204 by Hill, Barbara -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of maps, figures and family trees List of abbreviations Glossary Author’s acknowledgements 1. Introduction

Secondary sources Recent scholarship Sources Feminism, sex and gender Women in Byzantium: an introduction Towards a feminist history of Byzantium Byzantium: an introduction

2. The role of women in eleventh-century politics

Introduction Zoe Theodora Family government in the eleventh century Eudokia Makrembolitissa The rise of the Komnenoi The coup of 1081

3. Creating the ideal Komnenian woman

Introduction: deconstructing ideology Ideology and the Komnenoi Mother Wife Sister and daughter Physical attributes Conclusion

4. Titles for imperial women

Sources and historiography The system Augousta Basilissa Despoina Conclusion

5. The method of marriage

Anthropological analysis of the Komnenian system Marriage Inheritance, descent and naming strategies Woman as subject Conclusion

6. Power through patronage

Defining patronage Individual patrons Patterns of patronage Economic resources The effect of marital status Conclusion

7. A woman’s ideology

Anna Komnene and the Alexiad

8. The collapse of the Komnenian system

Maria of Antioch Euphrosyne Doukaina

9. Conclusion Chronology Appendix: Family trees Bibliography Index

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