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(3.5) | None | 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, and what they wanted to do.… (more) |
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For Matthew,
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You were selected by divine decree for the security and exaltation of the universe; you were joined to the purple by God's will. Almighty God has blessed you and crowned you with his own hand. (de. cer. 1.39)
These words formed part of the ceremony of the marriage of an emperor and empress and reflect the ideology implicit in the act of imperial coronation. (Introduction) Theodora, wife of the emperor Justinian, is one of the figures of Byzantine history of whom non-Byzantinists have sometimes heard. | |
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It is arguable that had Alexios not run away, the city would not have fallen to the Fourth Crusade, and certainly, had Euphrosyne been given the chance, she like Justinian's Theodora would have encouraged the emperor to ride out his difficulties and so have prevented the disastrous events of 1204. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)While they may have wished to emulate earlier regent empresses, they were not given the chance: the women who, proud of their class and family, played a public and influential part in the running of the empire belonged to an earlier age. (Epilogue) (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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▾Book descriptions 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, and what they wanted to do. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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The first extended work in the field since Charles Diehl published his Figures Byzantine more than ninety years ago, Byzantine Empresses provides much-needed historical data in an accessible and up-to-date form.
Using a chronological approach, Lynda Garland provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. She presents and analyzes the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do. Revealed are stories of imperial women who had considerable resources, such as powerful patronage, their own courts of women, eunuchs and ministers and who wielded an enormous amount of influence, such as total government control and the power to issue coinage and decrees.
Lavishly illustrated, Byzantine Empresses provides an immense contribution to the study of women in Byzantine civilization.
CONTENTS
List of illustrations ... ix
Preface ... xi
List of abbreviations ... xil
Map of Constantinople ... xx
Introduction ... I
PART I
From stage to statecraft ... 9
I Theodora, wife of Justinian(527-48) ... 11
2 Sophia (565-601+) ... 40
PART II
Regents and regicides ... 59
3 Martina (?615/16-41) ... 61
4 Irene (769-802) ... 73
5 Theodora, restorer of orthodoxy (830-67+) ... 95
6 The wives of Leo VI (886-919) ... 109
7 Theophano (c. 955-76+) ... 126
8 Zoe Porphyrogenneta (1028-50) ... 136
PART III
Empresses as autocrats ... 159
9 Theodora, the last Macedonian (1042-56) ...161
10 Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1059-78+) ... 168
11 The empresses of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) ... 180
12 Maria of Antioch (1161-82/3) ... 199
13 Euphrosyne Doukaina (1195-1203) ... 210
Epilogue ... 225
Tables ... 229
Glossary ... 241
Notes ... 246
Bibliography ... 293
Index ... 319
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