Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture

Stavroula Constantinou is Associate Professor in Byzantine Studies at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include gender, ritual, performance and narrative literature. Currently, she is writing a monograph on the art of Byzantine Greek miracle collection and she is co-editing (with Christian Høgel) a volume on rewriting hagiographical legends in Byzantium.Mati Meyer is Associate Professor at the Open University of Israel. Her research focuses on gender, aesthetics and cultural and biblical issues in Byzantine art. Among her current projects is a monograph on representations of the female body and its reception in the Byzantine illuminated book.

• Forward; David Konstan.- INTRODUCTION.- 1. Towards an Approach to Gendered Emotions in Byzantine Culture: An Introduction; Mati Meyer.- PART I.- 2. ‘Emotioning’ Gender: Plotting the Male and the Female in Byzantine Greek Passions and Lives of Holy Couples; Andria Andreou.- 3. Pity and Lamentation in the Authorial Personae of John Kaminiates and Anna Komnene; Leonora Neville.- 4. Gendering Grief: Emotional Eunuchs – Consoling Constantine the Paphlagonian; Shaun Tougher.- PART II.- 5. Justifiably Angry or Simply Angry?: Empresses in Byzantine Society; Andriani Georgiou.- 6. Emotions on Stage: The ‘Manly’ Woman Martyr in the Menologion of Basil II; Valentina Cantone.- PART III.- 7. Eros as Passion, Affection and Nature: Gendered Perceptions of Erotic Emotion in Byzantium; Charis Messis and Ingela Nilsson.- 8. ‘Weaver of Tales’: The Veroli Box and the Power of Eros in Byzantium; Diliana Angelova.- 9. Stirring up Sundry Emotions in the Byzantine Illuminated Book: Reflections on the Female Body; Mati Meyer.- CONCLUSIONS.- 10. Gendered Emotions and Affective Genders: A Response; Stavroula Constantinou.