The Byzantine Lady
The Byzantine Lady
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USDThis is a lively collection of ten short, annotated and illustrated biographies of aristocratic ladies of the final years of the Byzantine empire. Some were ambitious mothers; others, unhappy wives; some were nuns or scholars; one became the wife of a Turkish sultan and the stepmother of a famous son; another the champion of the Greek refugees in Venice after the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453. Their stories demonstrate the enterprise of some Byzantine women in the male-dominated society of their time.
- Canto version of highly successful and original Cambridge hardback
- Follow-up to author's successful The Immortal Emperor
- Unique contribution to the study of women in late Byzantine society, and to history in general
Reviews & endorsements
'… highly readable book.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'… construct[s] in vivid detail the history of the Paelaeologan epoch.' Anglo-Hellenic Review
Product details
July 1996Paperback
9780521576239
164 pages
216 × 136 × 14 mm
0.22kg
8 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Helena Doukaina, Queen of the Two Sicilies, 1258–1266
- 2. Thamar, Princess of Taranto 1294–1309
- 3. Theodora Raoulaina, nun and scholar, c. 1240–1300
- 4. Eirene Palaiologina (Yolanda of Montferrat), Empress, 1288/9–1317
- 5. Eirene-Eulogia Choumnaina Palaiologina, princess and abbess, died c. 1355
- 6. Eirene Asenina Cantucuzene, Empress, 1347–1354
- 7. Anna of Savoy, regent and Empress, 1341–c. 1365
- 8. Anna Notaras Palaiologina, died 1507
- 9. Mara Brankovic of Serbia, Sultanina, c. 1412–1476
- 10. Helena Cantacuzene Kommene, Empress of Trebizond, died c. 1463.
