TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

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