Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204Byzantine 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. |
Contents
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Part I From stage to statecraft | 9 |
Part II Regents and regicides | 59 |
Part III Empresses as autocrats | 159 |
Epilogue | 225 |
Tables | 229 |
Glossary | 241 |
Notes | 246 |
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Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 Lynda Garland No preview available - 2002 |
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