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Author:   Alice-Mary Talbot
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.748kg
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9781032704777

ISBN 10:   1032704772
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   02 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1 – “Monasticism” From Palgrave Advances in Byzantine History, ed. Jonathan Harris (Houndmills, 2005), 119-132 Chapter 2 - “A Monastic World” From The Social History of Byzantium, ed. John Haldon (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 257-278 Chapter 3 – “Monasticism in Constantinople in the Final Decades of the Byzantine Empire” From 550th Anniversary of the Istanbul University International Byzantine and Ottoman Symposium (XVth Century), 30-31 May 2003, ed. Sümer Atasoy (Istanbul, 2004), 295-308 Chapter 4 – “Founders’ Choices: Monastery Site Selection in Byzantium” From Founders and Refounders of Byzantine Monasteries, ed. Margaret Mullett (Belfast, 2007), 43-62 Chapter 5 – “Byzantine Monasticism and the Liturgical Arts” From Perceptions of Byzantium and its Neighbors (843-1261), ed. Olenka Pevny (New York, New York, 2000), 22-39 Hermits and Holy Mountains Chapter 6 – “Holy Mountains of Byzantium” English version of “Les saintes montagnes à Byzance” in Le sacré et son inscription dans l’espace à Byzance et en Occident, ed. Michel Kaplan (Paris, 2003), 263-275 Chapter 7 – “Holy Men of Mount Athos” From The Monastic Magnet: Roads to and from Mount Athos (Oxford, 2008), 41-61 Chapter 8 – “Searching for Women on Mount Athos” From Speculum 87 (2012), 995-1014 Chapter 9 – “Caves, Demons and Holy Men” From Le saint, le moine, le paysan: mélanges d’histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan, edd. Olivier Delouis, Sophie Métivier et Paule Pages (Paris, 2016), 707-718 Chapter 10 - “Building Activity in Constantinople under Andronikos II: The Role of Women Patrons in the Construction and Restoration of Monasteries” From Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life, ed. Nevra Necipoğlu (Leiden, 2001), 329-343 Chapter 11 – “Nuns in the Byzantine Countryside” (with Sharon Gerstel) From Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias 27 (2006), 481-490 Chapter 12 – “The Conversion of Byzantine Monasteries from Male to Female and Vice-Versa” From Polypleuros Nous: Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, edd. Cordula Scholz and Georgios Makris (Munich-Leipzig, 2001), 329-343 Chapter 13 – “Mealtime in Monasteries: The Culture of the Byzantine Refectory” From Eat, Drink and Be Merry (Luke 12:19): Food and Wine in Byzantium, edd. Leslie Brubaker and Kallirroe Linardou (Aldershot, 2007), 109-125 Chapter 14 – “The Adolescent Monastic in Middle and Late Byzantium” From Coming of Age in Byzantium: Adolescence and Society, ed. Despoina Ariantzi (Vienna, 2018), 83-97 Chapter 15 - “Personal Poverty in Byzantine Monasticism: Ideals and Reality” From Mélanges Cécile Morrisson [= Travaux et Mémoires 16] (Paris, 2011), 829-841 Chapter 16 – “Byzantine Monastic Horticulture: the Textual Evidence” From Byzantine Garden Culture, edd. Antony Littlewood, Henry Maguire and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Washington, DC, 2002), 37-67 Chapter 17 – “Monastic Onomastics” (with Stamatina McGrath) From Monastères, images, pouvoir et société à Byzance, ed. Michel Kaplan (Paris, 2006), 89-118 Bibliography

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Alice-Mary Talbot has spent most of her scholarly career at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, where she has held several research and administrative posts. In the 1980s she was executive editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Subsequently she managed the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database project. From 1997 to 2009 she served as director of Byzantine studies, and finally as editor of the Byzantine Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (2009-2019). Her research focuses on Byzantine women, monasticism, and hagiography.

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