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Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses

Image and Empire

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Anne McClanan
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 1-11

  3. Historical Prologue: Women of the Houses of Constantine and Theodosios

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 13-28

  4. Early Byzantine Steelyard Weights: Potency and Diffusion of the Imperial Image

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 29-64

  5. The Empress Ariadne and the Politics of Transition

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 65-92

  6. The Patronage of the Empress Theodora and Her Contemporaries

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 93-106

  7. Looking at Her: Prokopios Rhetor and the Representation of Empress Theodora

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 107-120

  8. The Visual Representation of the Empress Theodora

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 121-148

  9. The Empress Sophia: Authority and Image in an Era of Conflict

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 149-178

  10. Conclusion

    • Anne McClanan
    Pages 179-187

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 189-282
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About this book

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 to the 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.

About the author

ANNE L. MCCLANAN is Assistant Professor of art history at Portland State University, Oregon, USA. 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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