"This colloquium will address various issues associated with patronage in Byzantium and neighbouring states, through the perspective of gender"--Programme, p. [4].

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Programme. Begrüssung durch den Dekan der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien / Michael V. Schwarz -- Female founders-- the project / Lioba Theis -- The 'Ariadne' ivories : Leonian empresses revisited / Liz James -- Visibility of female founders : the case of ancient Greece / Marion Meyer -- Eudokia and Jerusalem / Konstantin Klein -- The image of Christ at the Latomos monastery in Thessalonike / Christine Stephan-Kaissis -- Female donation in eighth-century Egypt / Cornelia Römer -- Helena als Metaphor / Adriana Kapsreiter -- The voice of Theodora / Ulrike Unterweger -- Die Stifterinnentätigkeit der Kaiserin Sophia / Judith Radlegger -- Prosopographie "ge-gendert" : a gendered view of the PLP / Sylvie Herl -- A female donor amidst the Apostles : not heaven on earth but earth in heaven / Fani Gargova -- Still in search of Byzantine women, twenty-five years on / Judith Herrin -- Male contructions of female authorities : identity and spiritual power in the Lives of monastic foundresses / Stavroula Constantinou -- Elite women in the Holy Land in late antiquity / Marlena Whiting -- Early Byzantine medallions : piety and patronage / Andrea Olsen --

Patronage in the Patria, matronage and maternity / Eirene Panou -- Deconstructing donors / Linda Safran -- Le don de l'église : une affaire de couple? / Tania Kambourova -- Royal female donors to Iviron C11-13 / Eka Tchkoidze -- Female donors in thirteenth-centry wall-paintings in Cappadocia / Nota Karamaouna, Nilüfer Peker, B. Tolga Uyar -- Some female founders in the village : the Widow's tale / Sharon Gerstel and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti -- The adventures of a provincial female founder : Glykeria and the rhetoric of female weakness / Leonora Neville -- Keran, queen of the Armenians, and female patronage in the kingdon of Cilicia / Joanna Rapti -- Notes on female piety in the hermitages of Ochrid and Prespa / Saska Bogevska -- The sevastokratorissa Eirene as patron / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- A la recherche de la femme politique : le patronage des impératrices chez Michel Psellos / Eric Limousin -- The epistles of princess Jelena Balsic : an example of the role of noblewomen as patrons in late medieval Zeta / Alexandra Vukovitch -- Female patronage in the Palaiologan era : icons, minor arts and manuscripts / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Women as tomb patrons and subjects in the Palaiologan period /Sarah Brooks -- A late Byzantine patroness and counsellor : Helena Kantakouzene Palaiologina / Florin Leonte --

Theodora Raoulaina als Stifterin und Patronin / Alexander Riehle -- The Lincoln College Typikon and its siblings : books and writing in late Byzantine convents / Niels Gaul -- Klostergründungen russischer Fürstinnen im 13. Jahrhundert / Anna Michalowska -- Die Gründung der Doppelklöster in Byzanz / Ekaterini Mitsiou -- Galleries in monastic churches founded by women and their social implications / Anastasios Tantsis -- I seek not my own : is there a female mode of charity? / Dennis Stathakopoulos -- Female imperial donations and donors during the Arsenite schism (1261-1310) / Panagiotis Fragkiadakis -- Double lives and hidden patrons : a Byzantine set of relics, Siena and imperial women in late Byzantium / Stefania Gerevini -- The sins of female founders in late Byzantium / Petra Melichar -- The gynamics of foundation / Margaret Mullett.

Abstracts in English, French, and German.