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Article: Women of Byzantium.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2006
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Women of Byzantium. By Carolyn L. Connor. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 396. $45.00.)
In surveying the history of Byzantine women for the first time in a book by one author, this author has complicated her task by trying to combine scholarly standards with popularization and reluctance to criticize women. She mixes biography with social, literary, and art history in a style ranging from conversational ("Everyone has a story ...") to jargon ("I have determined a useful modality of approach") (xi, 311).
Carolyn L. Connor illustrates her different periods and subjects with case histories. In part one, "Late Antiquity (250-500)," ...