Byzantine Empresses - Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204

List of contents

List of illustrations, Preface, List of abbreviations, Map of Constantinople, Introduction, PART I From stage to statecraft, PART II Regents and regicides, PART III Empresses as autocrats, Tables, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Lynda Garland

Summary

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204.

Product details

• Authors: Lynda Garland, Garland Lynda
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.1998
• EAN: 9780415146883
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14688-3
• No. of pages: 364
• Weight: 600 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Ancient / General, CE period up to c 1500, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Biography: historical, political and military, Byzantine Empire