Évelyne Patlagean (20 October 1932 – 11 November 2008) was a French historian and Byzantinist, working on questions of poverty, welfare, gender, the family, and women in Byzantium.
In it, Patlagean developed ideas about inherent inequality in the status of women in the eastern Roman empire.
[1] Georges Sidéris suggests[2] that Patlagean drew upon then-new insights afforded by the work of the sex and gender researchers Robert J. Stoller and Ann Oakley.
Patlagean contributed to the first volume of Paul Veyne's edited Histoire de la vie privée (1987).
[3] Patlagean argued forcefully that Byzantium, a field of study generally kept separate from the Latin West in teaching and research (a bifurcation stemming in large part from the Byzantinist's need for facility with Greek), should be viewed as integrally connected with both the idea of the Middle Ages, and with the history of western Europe.