The early Middle Ages / edited by Franca Ela Consolino and Judith Herrin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Franca Ela Consolino and Judith Herrin -- “Woman’s Head Is Man”: Kyriarchy and the Rhetoric of Women’s Subordination in Byzantine Literature / Stavroula Constantinou -- Women and the Bible in Byzantium / Rosa Maria Parrinello -- Kassia the Melodist (ca. 810–ca. 865) and Her Use of the Scriptures / Anna M. Silvas -- Byzantine Reception of Biblical Revelation on the Virgin Mary Mary B. Cunningham -- The Virgin Mary and Ancient Jewish Literature / Martha Himmelfarb -- The Heavenly Guard of the Mother of God: Mary between the Angels in Early Byzantine Art / Maria Lidova -- Early Medieval Iconography of the Virgin Mary between East and West / Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli -- Women, Wine, and the Apostasy of the Wise: Sirach 19:2 in Medieval Latin Literature / Giuseppe Cremascoli -- The Women of the Old Testament in Early Medieval Poetry: Judith and the Others / Francesco Stella -- Women and the Bible in Latin Letter Collections of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Ninth Century) / Christiane Veyrard-Cosme -- Women Writers and Holy Writ in the Latin Early Middle Ages: The Bible in Dhuoda and Hrotsvit Franca Ela Consolino -- The Reception of Biblical Texts and Their Normative Effect upon Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century / Ines Weber -- Biblical Figures of Women in the Qur’an / Ulrike Bechmann.