Garland Lynda - Questions of gender in Byzantine society

QUESTIONS OF GENDER IN BYZANTINE SOCIETY

For John Melville-Jones

Edited by

BRONWEN NEIL
Australian Catholic University, Australia

LYNDA GARLAND
University of New England, Australia

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Questions of gender in Byzantine society.

1. Sex role--Byzantine Empire. 2. Gender expression--Byzantine Empire.

I. Neil, Bronwen. II. Garland, Lynda, 1955
305.3'09398618-dc23

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Questions of gender in Byzantine society / edited by Bronwen Neil and Lynda Garland.

pages cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-4779-5 (hbk) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-4780-1 (ebk) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-7449-4 (ePUB) 1. Sex role--Byzantine Empire--History. 2. Women--Byzantine Empire--History. 3. Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs. 4. Byzantine Empire--Social conditions. 5. Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life. 6. Byzantine Empire--Religious life and customs. I. Neil, Bronwen. II. Garland, Lynda, 1955

HQ1075.5.B97Q84 2013
305.309495--dc23

2013000828

ISBN 9781409447795 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315603339 (ebk)

Bronwen Neil

Paul Brown

Lynda Garland

Amelia R. Brown

Sarah Gador-Whyte

Liz James

Bronwen Neil

Diana Gilliland Wright

Shaun Tougher

Damien Casey

Dr Amelia R. Brown is Lecturer in Greek History and Language in the Classics and Ancient History discipline of the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She holds a PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from Berkeley, and also studied History, Hellenic Studies and Visual Arts at Princeton University. Her research interests include maritime history, Greek religion and ancient sculpture. She is working on a guide to Corinth through the ages.

Dr Paul Brown, University of New England, is an independent scholar and adjunct of the University of New England, Armidale, where he taught ancient and medieval history for five years. His primary research interest is cultural, literary and military diffusion, most especially between the Franks, Lombards, Normans and Byzantines, and his work has been published in the Journal of Medieval History.

Dr Damien Casey is Lecturer in Theology at the Australian Catholic University, in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy. He holds a PhD on gender differentiation in the work of Luce Irigaray from the University of Sydney, recently published as Flesh Made Word: Theology after Irigaray (2010). His other publications reflect his interest in the intersection between theology and philosophy, from the early Christian centuries to the postmodern age.

Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte recently attained a PhD from University of Melbourne on Rhetoric and Ideas in the Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist, which she is preparing for publication. She has published various articles on rhetoric in Byzantine literature. She is currently employed as a Research Associate in the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University.

Professor Lynda Garland is Head of the School of Humanities at the University of New England, Armidale. She has published widely on Byzantine studies with particular reference to issues of gender. Her current research project is a study of the foundation documents of Byzantine monasteries. Professor Garland is a past president of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies.

Professor Liz James is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex. She has published a book on early Byzantine empresses as well as papers dealing with female imperial power in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, and a range of articles dealing with aspects of Byzantine art. She is the editor of A Companion to Byzantium (2010).

Dr Bronwen Neil is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow. Her publications include Latin and Greek text editions and translations on the lives of Maximus the Confessor (1999, 2002 and 2003) and Leo I and Martin I, bishops of Rome in late antiquity (2009, 2006). Her research interests include early Christian literature, especially hagiography, and relations between the eastern and western churches in the early Byzantine period. She is current president of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, and Assistant Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, Brisbane.

Dr Shaun Tougher is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in the Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University, and co-director of the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture at Cardiff. He specialises in late Roman and Byzantine political and cultural history. His publications include The Reign of Leo VI (886912) (1997), Julian the Apostate (2007), and The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (2008). He is currently completing a study of eunuchs in the Roman empire.

Dr Diana Gilliland Wright is an independent scholar living in Seattle, WA. She has taught at Seattle University, and The New School University in New York. Her focus of study is the fifteenth-century Morea and the intersection of cultures there, to appear in the book The Knight and Death: The Kladas Affair and the Fifteenth-Century Morea (forthcoming).

I am grateful to all those who have contributed to this volume, and to those who presented papers at the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies conference which inspired its conception. My co-editor Lynda Garland, as host of that conference on the theme of Gender and Class in Byzantine Society at the University of New England in April 2010, has played a most important part in bringing together the papers submitted here. Special thanks to Sarah Gador-Whyte and Dinah Joesoef for careful proofing and editorial work, and to Pauline Allen, Roger Scott and Andrew Stephenson for their valuable advice along the way. All chapters have been peer-reviewed. To our anonymous referees, I am particularly grateful.