Byzantine Empresses
Title | Byzantine Empresses PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Garland |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2002-01-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134756399 |
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.
Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses
Title | Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses PDF eBook |
Author | A. McClanan |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2016-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137044691 |
This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological tools from fields as disparate as numismatics as well as cultural and gender studies help clarify the broader cultural significance of female imperial representation and patronage at this time.
Byzantine Empresses
Title | Byzantine Empresses PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Diehl |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium
Title | Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | Liz James |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The role of the Byzantine emperor has been exhaustively analyzed; the place of the Byzantine empress -- often perceived as an appendate to male imperial power -- is more problematic. Elizabeth James begins her study with Helena, mother of the first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great, and ends with Eirene, the only woman to rule as an "emperor" in Byzantium. More than simply a biography of each empress in the period between the fourth and eighth centuries, this book analyzes the nature of female imperial power during that time. What rights and responsibilities, what access to power, if any, did the office of empress carry?
The Empresses of Constantinople
Title | The Empresses of Constantinople PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph McCabe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Empresses of Constantinople by Joseph McCabe, first published in 1913, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
The Theodosian Code
Title | The Theodosian Code PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Harries |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Codex Theodosianus |
ISBN |
Byzantine Women
Title | Byzantine Women PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Garland |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780754657378 |
This volume brings together a group of international scholars in new explorations of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' fields of operation. Contributions focus on women's participation in the street life of Constantinople, their appearance in Byzantine fiscal documents, their monastic foundations, their costume and engagement with entertainment at the imperial court, and the way heroines are portrayed in the Byzantine novels.