Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture

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.