Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 /

Main Author: Garland, Lynda, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Map of Constantinople
  • Pt. I. From stage to statecraft. 1. Theodora, wife of Justinian (527-48). 2. Sophia (565-601+)
  • Pt. II. Regents and regicides. 3. Martina (?615/16-41). 4. Irene (769-802). 5. Theodora, restorer of orthodoxy (830-67+). 6. The wives of Leo VI (886-919). 7.Theophano (c. 955-76+). 8. Zoe Porphyrogenneta (1028-50)
  • Pt. III. Empresses as autocrats. 9. Theodora, the last Macedonian (1042-56). 10. Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1059-78+). 11. The empresses of Alexios IKomnenos (1081-1118). 12. Maria of Antioch (1161-82/3). 13. Euphrosyne Doukaina (1195-1203).