Typisch Mann, typisch Frau: Beschreibungen von Kaiserinnen in der byzantinischen Historiographie
Typical man, typical woman? The queens description in the bysantine historiography

Summary/Abstract: Reading Byzantine historiography certain patterns of human behaviour, social interactions and even their perversion emerge. This article deals with female habits focusing on the imperial sphere. Using Eirene Doukaina’s excursion with her husband Alexios Komnenos (recorded by Anna Komnena) as an example of female appearance in public four chapters deal with women’s spaces (in a military context), female attire (and its improper usage), acoustic presence of women (in a male ambience) and informality (imperial women backing their husbands). Sometimes female / womanish behaviour is attributed to men in order to disparage them. Such cases shed light on the understanding of the relation between sexes in Byzantium

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