Byzantine women : varieties of experience, 800-1200 /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Changing functions of monasteries for women during Byzantine iconoclasm / Judith Herrin -- Kassia the Nun c.810-c.865 : an appreciation / Anna Silvas -- Propriety, practicality, and pleasure : the parameters of women's dress in Byzantium, A.D. 1000-1200 / Timothy Dawson -- Taxing Sophronia's son-in-law : representations of women in provincial documents / Leonora Neville -- Mary of Alania : woman and empress between two worlds / Lynda Garland & Stephen Rapp -- Middle Byzantine family values and Anna Komnene's Alexiad / Dion Smythe -- Women in Byzantine novels of the twelfth century : an interplay between norm and fantasy / Corinne Jouanno -- Street life in Constantinople : women and the carnivalesque / Lynda Garland -- Imperial women and entertainment at the middle Byzantine court / Lynda Garland