The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500

by: Nicol, D.M.

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This is a lively collection of ten 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. Their stories demonstrate the enterprise of some Byzantine women in the male-dominated society of their time.

Canto version of highly successful and original Cambridge hardback
Follow-up to author's successful The Immortal Emperor
Unique contribution to the study of women in late Byzantine society, and to history in general

Table of Contents
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.

The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500

by: Nicol, D.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780521576239 / 978-0-521-57623-9
• ISBN-03: 0521576237 / 0-521-57623-7
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996

Price: 17,02 EURO

1 copy in stock