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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- TABLE OF CONTENTS v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction 1
- Greek Monasteries in Early Árpádian Hungary 11
- What did Piroska see at Home? New Trends in Art and Architecture in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1100 39
- Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the Eleventh– Twelfth Centuries 63
- Piroska-Eirene and the Komnenian Dynasty 97
- Komnenian Empresses: From Powerful Mothers to Pious Wives 121
- Piroska-Eirene, First Western Empress of Byzantium: Power and Perception 143
- The Many Faces of Piroska-Eirene in Visual and Material Culture 153
- Imperial Women and Religious Foundations in Constantinople 175
- To Each According to their Need: Medical and Charitable Institutions in the Pantokrator Monastery 195
- Piroska and the Pantokrator: Reassessing the Architectural Evidence 225
- Piroska-Eirene and the Holy Theotokos 261
- “A New Mixture of Two Powers:” Nicholas Kallikles and Theodore Prodromos on Empress Eirene 291
- Ritual and Politics in the Pantokrator: A Lament in Two Acts for Eirene’s Son 305
- Concluding Remarks 323
- Appendix 1 Synaxarion 327
- Appendix 2 Theodoros Prodromos, “Epitaph of Empress Eirene” 332
- Appendix 3 Nicholas Kallikles, “On the tomb of the Despina” 333
- Index 335
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- TABLE OF CONTENTS v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction 1
- Greek Monasteries in Early Árpádian Hungary 11
- What did Piroska see at Home? New Trends in Art and Architecture in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1100 39
- Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the Eleventh– Twelfth Centuries 63
- Piroska-Eirene and the Komnenian Dynasty 97
- Komnenian Empresses: From Powerful Mothers to Pious Wives 121
- Piroska-Eirene, First Western Empress of Byzantium: Power and Perception 143
- The Many Faces of Piroska-Eirene in Visual and Material Culture 153
- Imperial Women and Religious Foundations in Constantinople 175
- To Each According to their Need: Medical and Charitable Institutions in the Pantokrator Monastery 195
- Piroska and the Pantokrator: Reassessing the Architectural Evidence 225
- Piroska-Eirene and the Holy Theotokos 261
- “A New Mixture of Two Powers:” Nicholas Kallikles and Theodore Prodromos on Empress Eirene 291
- Ritual and Politics in the Pantokrator: A Lament in Two Acts for Eirene’s Son 305
- Concluding Remarks 323
- Appendix 1 Synaxarion 327
- Appendix 2 Theodoros Prodromos, “Epitaph of Empress Eirene” 332
- Appendix 3 Nicholas Kallikles, “On the tomb of the Despina” 333
- Index 335