Questions of gender in Byzantine society

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1. An introduction to questions of gender in Byzantium / Bronwen Neil -- 2. Perceptions of Byzantine Virtus in southern Italy, from the eighth to eleventh centuries / Paul Brown -- 3. 'Till death do us part?' : family life in Byzantine monasteries / Lynda Garland -- 4. Psalmody and Socrates : female literacy in the Byzantine empire / Amelia R. Brown -- 5. Changing conceptions of Mary in sixth-century Byzantium : the Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist / Sarah Gador-Whyte -- 6. Ghosts in the machine : the lives and deaths of Constantinian imperial women / Liz James -- 7. Regarding women on the throne : representations of Empress Eirene / Bronwen Neil -- 8. The brides of 1420 : men looking at women's bodies / Diana Gilliland Wright -- 9. Bearding Byzantium : masculinity, eunuchs and the Byzantine life course / Shaun Tougher -- 10. The spiritual valency of gender in Byzantine society / Damien Casey.