| | | Type | Year Published |
| Hrissimov, Nikolay; Marchev, Valentin | A New Source on the Life and Reign of Empress Theodora | Book Section | 2015 |
| Whittemore, Thomas | A portrait of the Empress Zoe and of Constantine IX | Journal Article | 1948 |
| James, Liz | As the actress said to the bishop ...': the portrayal of Byzantine women in English-language fiction (Original Title: Who's that girl? Personifications of the Byzantine empress) | Book Section | 2003 |
| James, Liz | As the actress said to the bishop...Byzantine women in English-language Fiction | Book Section | 2000 |
| Ferluga, Jadran | Aufstände im byzantinischen Reich zwischen den Jahren 1025 und 1081. Versuch einer Typologie | Journal Article | 1985 |
| Garland, Lynda | Byzantine empresses women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 | Book | 1999 |
| Miller, Dean A. | Byzantine Sovereignty and Feminine Potencies | | 1992 |
| Lacam, Guy | Civilisation et Monnaies Byzantines | Book | 1974 |
| Garland, Lynda | Conformity and License at the Byzantine Court in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: The Case of Imperial Women | Journal Article | 1995 |
| Kiilerich, Bente | Defacement and Replacement as Political Strategies in Ancient Ruler Images | Conference Proceedings | 2006 |
| Poulakou-Rebelakou, Effie; Kalantzis, George; Tsiamis, Costas; Ploumpidis, Dimitris | Dementia on the Byzantine Throne (AD 330–1453) | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Krallis, Dimitris | 'Democratic' Action in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: Michael Attaleiates' Republicanism in Context | Journal Article | 2009 |
| Maslev, Stefan | Die staatsrechtliche Stellung der byzantinischen Kaiserinnen | Journal Article | 1966 |
| Füeg, Franz | Ein Bleisiegel der Kaiserin Zoë 10. Dezember 1041-18. April 1042 | Journal Article | 1988 |
| Ciggaar, Krijnie | Encore une fois Chrétien de Troyes et la matière byzantine: la révolution des femmes au palais de Constantinople | Journal Article | 1995 |
| Irmscher, Johannes | Frau, Ehe und Familie in Byzanz | Journal Article | 1985 |
| Niyogi, Ruma | Gender, Politics, and Imperial Legitimation in Byzantium, 1028-1057 | Journal Article | 2001 |
| Niyogi, Ruma | Gender, Politics, and Rhetoric in Byzantium, 1025-1081 | Thesis | 2005 |
| Laiou, Angeliki E. | Imperial Marriages and Their Critics in the Eleventh Century: The Case of Skylitzes | Journal Article | 1992 |
| Kalavrezou, Ioli Despina | Irregular marriages in the eleventh century and the Zoe and Constantine mosaic in Hagia Sophia | Book Section | 1994 |
| Talbot, Alice Mary | La donna | Book Section | 1992 |
| Olmos, José María de Francisco, | La Mujer en la Europa del Románico. Asalto al poder monárquico | Journal Article | 2003 |
| Bensammar, Elisabeth | La titulature de l'impératrice et sa signification: Recherches sur les sources byzantines de la fin du VIIIe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle | Journal Article | 1976 |
| Verdon, Jean | Les femmes en l'an mille | Book | 1999 |
| Cheynet, Jean-Claude | Les Sceaux des Impératrices à Byzance | Book Section | 2006 |
| Cheynet, Jean-Claude | Les Sceaux des Impératrices à Byzance | Book Section | 2006 |
| Kiilerich, Bente | Likeness and Icon: the Imperial Couples in Hagia Sophia | Journal Article | 2004 |
| Kambourova, Tania | L'image Manipulée: Considérations Sur Une Mosaïque De Sainte-Sophie | Journal Article | 2006 |
| Walter, C. | Marriage Crowns in Byzantine Iconography | Journal Article | 1979 |
| Kotsis, Kriszta | Mothers of the Empire: Empresses Zoe and Theodora on a Byzantine Medallion Cycle | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Nilsson, Carina | Perspectives of Power: Byzantine Imperial Women | Journal Article | 2009 |
| Cheynet, Jean-Claude | Pouvoir et contestations à Byzance (963-1210) | Book | 1990 |
| Zulian, Giulia | Reconstructing the Image of an Empress in Middle Byzantine Constantinople: Gender in Byzantium, Psellos' Empress Zoe and the Chapel of Christ Antiphonites | Journal Article | 2007 |
| Kiilerich, Bente | Rifacimenti nel pannello macedone in Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli: Zoe e i suoi tre mariti | Book Section | 2005 |
| Dahmus, Joseph Henry | Seven Medieval Queens | Book | 1972 |
| Austin, Cheridan E. | Sex and Political Legitimacy: an Examination of Byzantine Empresses (399 -1056 c.e.) | Thesis | 2010 |
| Pollick, Brian A. | Sex, Lies, and Mosaics: The Zoe Panel as a Reflection of Change in Eleventh-Century Byzantium | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Runciman, Steven | Some Notes on the Role of the Empress | Journal Article | 1972 |
| Schreidl-Rannegger, Maria Gabriele | Stifter am Throne Christi: Das Mosaik von Zoë und Konstantin IX. Monomachos auf der Empore der Hagia Sophia in Istanbul | Thesis | 2012 |
| Treadgold, Warren | The Bride-Shows of the Byzantine Emperors | Journal Article | 1979 |
| Panas, Marios; Poulakou-Rebelakou, Effie; Kalfakis, Nicoalos; Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios | The Byzantine Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita and the quest for eternal youth | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Anastos, Milton V. | The coronation of Emperor Michael IV in 1034 by Empress Zoe and its significance | Book Section | 2001 |
| Nilsson, Carina | The Empress in Late Antiquity and the Roman Origins of the Imperial Feminine | Thesis | 2011 |
| Mesanovic, Sanja | The Female Desire for Imperial Authority in Byzantium: the Case of Zoe and Theodora | Book Section | 2002 |
| Garland, Lynda | The life and ideology of Byzantine women | Journal Article | 1988 |
| Lönnroth, Lars | The Man-Eating Mama of Miklagard: Empress Zoe in Old Norse Saga Tradition | Book Section | 1998 |
| Oikonomidès, Nicolas | The Mosaic Panel of Constantine IX and Zoe in Saint Sophia | Journal Article | 1978 |
| Laiou, A. E. | The Role of Women in Byzantine Society | Journal Article | 1981 |
| Laurent, V. | Une prétendue numismate sur le trône de Byzance ou les dariques de l'impératrice Théodora | Journal Article | 1946 |
| Wilson, Laurie Jean | Women and imperial power in Byzantium 780-1056: A study of the reigns of the Empress Eirene and six later empresses | Thesis | 1985 |
