This volume brings together a group of international scholars in new explorations of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of th

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This

In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses—Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora—changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It

"This book accompanies the first exhibition to explore the lives of Byzantine women through their representation in material and literary culture. It features n