Byzantine Lady - POD TITLE

Klappentext This is a lively collection of 10 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Donald M. Nicol
• Assisted by: Donald M. Nicol (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521576239
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57623-9
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 218 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Canto Original; Canto Original
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book