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

"Byzantine 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, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garland, Lynda, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. From stage to statecraft
  • pt. 2. Regents and regicides
  • pt. 3. Empresses as autocrats.