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Autore |
Garland Lynda <1955-, > |
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Titolo |
Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 / / Lynda Garland |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-75638-0 |
1-134-75639-9 |
1-280-33192-5 |
0-203-02481-8 |
0-203-15951-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (364 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Empresses - Byzantine Empire |
Leadership in women - Byzantine Empire - History |
Byzantine Empire History 527-1081 |
Byzantine Empire History 1081-1453 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-318) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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