books.google.co.uk - This volume brings together a group of international scholars in new explorations of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' fields of operation....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Byzantine_Women.html?id=T4eMlP3nV4YC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareByzantine Women