Ekaterini Mitsiou

Gebundenes Buch

Female Monastic Networks in Late Byzantium

Textual, Spatial, and Cultural Entanglements

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Ekaterini Mitsiou (Vienna) is an expert on Byzantine monasticism and economic life, and on digital humanities. Her publications include three volumes of proceedings and articles on Latin and Byzantine monasteries in Constantinople, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and female monasticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ARC Humanities Press
• Seitenzahl: 221
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641890656
• ISBN-10: 1641890657
• Artikelnr.: 74902340