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



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Autore: Garland Lynda <1955-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 / / Lynda Garland Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina: 949.50099
949.50130922
Soggetto topico: Empresses - Byzantine Empire
Leadership in women - Byzantine Empire - History
Soggetto geografico: Byzantine Empire History 527-1081
Byzantine Empire History 1081-1453
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Byzantine Empresses  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-75638-0
1-134-75639-9
1-280-33192-5
0-203-02481-8
0-203-15951-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910829297403321
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