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Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204
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Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Theodora : actress, empress, saint
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ISBN: 9780199740765 0199740763 0199392390 9780199392391 0199392536 0190692758 9780190692759 9780199392537 Year: 2015 Volume: *5 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she abandoned a successful acting career in her late teens to follow a lover whom she was legally forbidden to marry. When he left her, she was a single mother who built a new life for herself as a secret agent

Byzanz unter Eirene und Konstantin VI. (780 - 802).
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ISSN: 09453598 ISBN: 3631305826 9783631305829 Year: 1996 Volume: 2 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204
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ISBN: 0415146887 9780415146883 0203024818 9780203024812 1134756399 1280331925 0203159519 9780203159514 9786610331925 6610331928 9781134756391 9781134756346 1134756348 9781134756384 1134756380 9780415619448 0415619440 9781280331923 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Routledge

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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.

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