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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.
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Some were ambitious mothers, others unhappy wives or nuns or scholars... A lively collection of ten concise illustrated biographies of aristocratic ladies of the Byzantine empire demonstrates the enterprise of Byzantine women in the male-dominated society of their time.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0521576237
- ISBN 13 9780521576239
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages164
- EditorNicol Donald M.
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