Female Monastic Networks in Late Byzantium

Textual, Spatial, and Cultural Entanglements

9781641890656

264 pages

Amsterdam University Press

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Overview

This book offers the first analysis of female monasticism across the last three centuries of the Byzantine empire using Social Network Analysis (SNA). The present study analyzes and reconstructs the networks of Byzantine female monasteries as well as the geographical and spatial dimensions of monastic life, art, and literary production. Moreover, it reconstructs and represents the networks of specific female monastic individuals, female involvement in ecclesiastical controversies, and the complexity of patronage.

Author Bio

Ekaterini Mitsiou ================= Ekaterini Mitsiou (Vienna) is an expert on the monasticism and economic life of Byzantium. Her recent publications include three volumes of proceedings as well as articles on Latin and Byzantine monasteries in Constantinople, female monasticism and Byzantine economic history.