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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454581403321

Autore

Garland Lynda <1955-, >

Titolo

Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 / / Lynda Garland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-75639-9

1-280-33192-5

0-203-02481-8

0-203-15951-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

949.50099

949.50130922

Soggetti

Empresses - Byzantine Empire

Leadership in women - Byzantine Empire - History

Electronic books.

Byzantine Empire History 527-1081

Byzantine Empire History 1081-1453

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Map of Constantinople; Introduction; From stage to statecraft; Theodora, wife of Justinian (527  48); Sophia (565  601+); Regents and regicides; Martina (?615/16  41); Irene (769  802); Theodora, restorer of orthodoxy (830  67+); The wives of Leo VI (886  919); Theophano (c. 955  76+); Zoe Porphyrogenneta (1028  50); Empresses as autocrats; Theodora, the last Macedonian (1042  56); Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1059  78+); The empresses of Alexios I Komnenos (1081  1118); Maria of Antioch (1161  82/3)

Euphrosyne Doukaina (1195  1203)Epilogue; Tables; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical



data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do.