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Tables of Contents for Byzantine Women and Their World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Director's Foreword
7
8
Preface and Acknowledgments
8
2
Lenders to the Exhibition
10
1
Contributing Authors / Notes on the Catalogue
11
2
Women in the Visual Record of Byzantium
13
10
Ioli Kalavrezou
Women in the History of Byzantium
23
12
Angeliki E. Laiou
CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION
CIVIC LIFE
Women as Embodiments of Civic Life
35
32
Elizabeth A. Gittings
ELITE WOMEN
Dignity, Power, and Piety
67
46
Elizabeth A. Gittings
PUBLIC DEVOTION
The Virgin of Constantinople: Power and Belief
113
26
Bissera V. Pentcheva
WORK
The Art and Craft of Earning a Living
139
22
Molly Fulghum Heintz
HOME
A Space ``Rich in Blessing''
161
54
Alicia Walker
MARRIAGE
Wife and Husband: ``A Golden Team''
215
18
Alicia Walker
ADORNMENT
Enhancing the Body, Neglecting the Soul?
233
42
Alicia Walker
HEALTH
Magic, Medicine, and Prayer
275
31
Molly Fulghum Heintz
Appendix: Byzantine Empresses
306
7
Bibliography
313
14
Index
327
8
Illustration Credits
335