This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological tools from fields as disparate as numismatics as well as cultural and gender studies help clarify the broader cultural significance of female imperial representation and patronage at this time.
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Anne McClanan is Assistant Professor of art history at Portland State University. She is the co-editor of Personal Objects, Social Subjects: The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe, forthcoming from Palgrave.
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The first centuries of the Roman Empire witnessed important developments in the role and representation of the empress, but the powerful empresses of the Houses of Constantine and Theodosios during the fourth and fifth centuries provide the precedents most relevant to early Byzantine women's patronage and other public displays of authority. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steelyard counterweight, clipeate portraits, ton gynaikon, steelyard weights, globus crucifier, numismatic imagery, imperial women, bust facing right, imperial panels, consular diptychs, globus cruciger, half follis, syntomoi chronikai, imperial woman, der spdtantike, typological nature, imperial representation, political pornography, imperial image, female courtiers, imperial art, administrando imperio, historiae byzantinae, bronze coinage, bride shows Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John of Ephesus, Empress Sophia, Church of San Vitale, Dumbarton Oaks, Constantine the Great, Emperor Justin, Byzantine Empire, Licinia Eudoxia, Virgin Mary, Theophanes the Confessor, Anicia Juliana, Book of Ceremonies, Middle Byzantine, Athena Polias, Holy Land, Galla Placidia, Michael the Syrian, Zacharias of Mitylene, Anna Komnene, British Museum, Empress Irene, Julia Domna, Gregory of Tours, Istanbul Archeological Museum, Trier Ivory New!
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The first centuries of the Roman Empire witnessed important developments in the role and representation of the empress, but the powerful empresses of the Houses of Constantine and Theodosios during the fourth and fifth centuries provide the precedents most relevant to early Byzantine women's patronage and other public displays of authority. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steelyard counterweight, clipeate portraits, ton gynaikon, steelyard weights, globus crucifier, numismatic imagery, imperial women, bust facing right, imperial panels, consular diptychs, globus cruciger, half follis, syntomoi chronikai, imperial woman, der spdtantike, typological nature, imperial representation, political pornography, imperial image, female courtiers, imperial art, administrando imperio, historiae byzantinae, bronze coinage, bride shows Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John of Ephesus, Empress Sophia, Church of San Vitale, Dumbarton Oaks, Constantine the Great, Emperor Justin, Byzantine Empire, Licinia Eudoxia, Virgin Mary, Theophanes the Confessor, Anicia Juliana, Book of Ceremonies, Middle Byzantine, Athena Polias, Holy Land, Galla Placidia, Michael the Syrian, Zacharias of Mitylene, Anna Komnene, British Museum, Empress Irene, Julia Domna, Gregory of Tours, Istanbul Archeological Museum, Trier Ivory New!
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- The Byzantines (The Peoples of Europe) by Averil Cameron in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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