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Female Monastic Networks in Late Byzantium: Textual, Spatial and Cultural Entanglements

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Ekaterini Mitsiou
2025
Published by: Arc Humanities Press
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This study is the first analysis of female monasticism of the three last centuries of Byzantium based on SNA. The present study analyses 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 will reconstruct and represent the networks of specific female monastic individuals, female involvement in ecclesiastical controversies, and the complexity of patronage.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp. vii-viii

Abbreviations

pp. ix

Acknowledgements

pp. x

Guide for the Reader

pp. x

Introduction

pp. 1-12

Chapter 1. (Female) Monasticism: An Outline

pp. 13-22

Chapter 2. Female Monasteries in Late Byzantium

pp. 23-78

Chapter 3. Economic Networks of Female Monasteries

pp. 79-118

Chapter 4. Female Monastic Networks of Art and Knowledge

pp. 119-154

Chapter 5. Female Monasticism and the Church

pp. 155-182

Conclusions

pp. 183-186

Appendix 1. List of Nuns

pp. 187-200

Appendix 2. Lists of Nunneries

pp. 201-204

Bibliography

pp. 205-244

Index of Places

pp. 245-247

Index of Persons

pp. 248-254
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