Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Towards an Approach to Gendered Emotions in Byzantine Culture: An Introduction  (Mati Meyer)....Pages 3-32
Front Matter ....Pages 33-33
 ‘Emotioning’ Gender: Plotting the Male and the Female in Byzantine Greek Passions and Lives of Holy Couples  (Andria Andreou)....Pages 35-63
 Pity and Lamentation in the Authorial Personae of John Kaminiates and Anna Komnene  (Leonora Neville)....Pages 65-92
 Gendering Grief: Emotional Eunuchs—Consoling Constantine the Paphlagonian  (Shaun Tougher)....Pages 93-107
Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
 Empresses in Byzantine Society: Justifiably Angry or Simply Angry?  (Andriani Georgiou)....Pages 111-140
 Emotions on Stage: The ‘Manly’ Woman Martyr in the Menologion of Basil II  (Valentina Cantone)....Pages 141-155
Front Matter ....Pages 157-157
 Eros as Passion, Affection and Nature: Gendered Perceptions of Erotic Emotion in Byzantium  (Charis Messis, Ingela Nilsson)....Pages 159-190
 ‘Weaver of Tales’: The Veroli Box and the Power of Eros in Byzantium  (Diliana Angelova)....Pages 191-244
 Stirring up Sundry Emotions in the Byzantine Illuminated Book: Reflections on the Female Body  (Mati Meyer)....Pages 245-279
Front Matter ....Pages 281-281
 Gendered Emotions and Affective Genders: A Response  (Stavroula Constantinou)....Pages 283-315
Back Matter ....Pages 317-327