The Thesis is concerned with the representation of women in eight Byzantine novels written in a period ranging from the twelfth to early fifteenth centuries. Focusing on the language, tropes, characterization and stereotypes of the texts, we map out the ideological construction of gendered identities examining relationally the representation of men and women alike. We use gender as a research tool, in order to register the coding of femininity and argue that, although those novels reproduced the structural oppositions of Byzantine patriarchal discourse, in terms of which women were defined as the “other”, they also deconstructed them as they provided a new literary paradigm for the representation of female gender. Subsequently, I situate the novels’ gendered discourse within a nexus of other discourses, judicial, medical, religious or philosophical, which constituted the dominant regime of truth in the specific historical moment, in order to speculate about whether, how and to which extent real historical subjects’ gender identities and lived reality were constituted by these representations.