Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 / Lynda Garland.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1999Description: xx, 343 páginas : ilustraciones en blanco y negro ; 24 cmContent type:- texto
- sin mediación
- volumen
- 0415146887
- 9780415146883
- DF572.8.E5 G37 1999
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libros | Mediateca | Bibliográfica | DF572.8.E5 G37 1999 Ej.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 16305 |
Incluye bibliografía (293-318) e índice.
List of illustrations, -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Map of Constantinople -- Introduction -- PART I: From stage to statecraft ; Theodora, wife of Justinian (527-48) ; Sophia (565-601 +) -- PART II: 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) -- PART III: 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) -- Tables -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
"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" -- tomado de la página del editor.
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