Bücher von Margaret Mullett

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.

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.