Bøker av Margaret Mullett

The essays in this volume reconsider from a variety of vantage points an early collaborative project of Dumbarton Oaks, which brought together a philologist, an art historian, and an architectural historian to reconstruct their own version of the Church of the Holy Apostles.

This volume explores the letters of Theophylacht of Ochrid. It concentrates on the letters as examples of Byzantine literature and attempts to place an epistolary text in a succession of literary and historical contexts and makes an analysis of the personal networks of Theophylacht.

Features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. This work also includes essays that interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery, and gendered constructions of maternity.