Series: Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies. Paperback: 298 pages. In addition, to round out an otherwise often neglected field on Byzantium, Laiou offers an outline on sex, consent, and coercion in the East.

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies.

Pp. ix + 298, 3 illus. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Recommend this journal.

Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies. Laiou, Angeliki E. This collection of essays addresses a number of questions regarding the role of consent in marriage and in sexual relations outside of marriage in ancient and medieval societies. Ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the Byzantine Empire and Western Medieval Europe. Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West. Gerstel, Sharon E. J.

This collection of essays addresses a number of questions regarding the role of consent in marriage and in sexual relations outside of marriage in ancient and medieval societies

Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies. Byzantium, A World Civilization.

Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies. By (author) Angeliki Laiou. The nine studies collected here deal with Ancient Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire, and Western Medieval Europe. It is thus possible to see different approaches on the part of these societies, and also a certain evolution, in which Christianity played an important and subtle role. Other concepts, such as honor and shame, are also examined. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Press. In: Byzantine Ecocriticism. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks. Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies. Eros the Executioner: Dreams and Female Initiation in the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne and in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

With her Laiou pioneered the study of Byzantine and wider medieval society .

With her Laiou pioneered the study of Byzantine and wider medieval society, and especially the role of women. Her article on The role of women in Byzantine society, published in the Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik in 1981, "opened a new field for scholars of Byzantium". Her works on Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire (1977) and Mariage, Amour et Parenté à Byzance Aux XIe-XIIIe Siècles (1992) were among the first studies in their field. Consent and coercion to sex and marriage in ancient and medieval societies. ISBN 978-0-88402-213-8. Laiou, Angeliki . Simon, Dieter (1994).

Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies

Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies. Because of the wide range-in time and place-of societies studied, the reader is able to see many different approaches to the question of consent and coercion as well as a certain evolution, in which Christianity plays an important role.

Request PDF On Jun 24, 2016, Adam J. Goldwyn and others published A. .The Study of Medieval Greek Romance: A Reassessment of Recent Work.

The Study of Medieval Greek Romance: A Reassessment of Recent Work.

Laiou, Angeliki . (di., Consent and Coercition to Sex and Marriage in the Ancient and Medieval Societies, (Washington DC: Dumbarton,1993). Mariage, amour et parenté à Byzance aux XIe-XIIIe siècles, (Paris : De Boccard, 1992) Laiou, Angeliki . The Role of Women in Byzantine Society, Jahrbuch der Oesterreichischen Byzantinistik, 31/1, 1981: 233-250. Lee, Nancy . Lamentations and Polemic: The Reception/Rejection History of Women’s Lamen. nd Syria, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 67, no. 2 (2013): 155-183.