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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
Theodora I [Empress of Byzantium] --- Empresses --- Impératrices --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Theodora, --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Histoire --- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justinian I, 527-565. --- Empresses -- Byzantine Empire -- Biography. --- Theodora, Empress, consort of Justinian I, Emperor of the East, -548. --- Greece --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- E-books --- Impératrices --- History. --- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justinian I, 527-565 --- Empresses -- Byzantine Empire -- Biography --- Theodora, Empress, consort of Justinian I, Emperor of the East, -548 --- Theodora imp. de Byzance --- Theodora, - Empress, consort of Justinian I, Emperor of the East, - -548 --- 527 - 565 --- Byzantine Empire. --- Monarchy --- Queens --- Teodora, --- Justinian I, Reign of (Byzantine Empire) --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Bizantia --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Impero bizantino --- Vizantii͡ --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos
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Constantine --- Irene, --- Leo --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Histoire --- Emperors --- Empresses --- Biography --- -Empresses --- -Monarchy --- Queens --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Kings and rulers --- Monarchy --- Constantine VI, Emperor of the East --- Irene Empress of the East --- -Politics and government --- -Byzantine Empire --- -Foreign relations --- -Emperors --- -Biography --- -Constantine --- -Rulers --- -Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Foreign relations --- Constantino --- Konstantin --- Qusṭanṭīn --- Politics and government --- Emperors - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Empresses - Byzantine Empire - Biography
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Empresses --- -Humanists --- -Scholars --- Monarchy --- Queens --- Biography --- Eudocia consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East --- Byzantine Empire --- -History --- -Empresses --- -Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- History --- Humanists --- Eudocia, --- Intellectual life --- -Bajo Imperio --- Byzantium (Empire) --- -Biography --- -Empresses - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Humanists - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Eudocia, - Empress, consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, - -460 --- Byzantine Empire - History - Theodosius II, 408-450 --- Byzantine Empire - Intellectual life --- -History -
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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.
Empresses --- Leadership in women --- Impératrices --- Leadership chez la femme --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Politics and government --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- -Empresses --- -Leadership in women --- -Women's leadership --- Women --- Monarchy --- Queens --- -History --- Psychology --- Keizerinnen. --- Byzantijnse rijk. --- Women rulers --- Kaiserin --- History. --- Geschichte 527-1204. --- Byzantinisches Reich --- Kaiserin. --- Byzantinisches Reich. --- -Byzantine Empire --- -Byzantijnse rijk. --- Impératrices --- Women's leadership --- Leadership in women - Byzantine Empire - History --- Empresses - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Theodora, imperatrix vidua Theophili --- Theodora imp. de Byzance --- Irene iunior Atheniensis imp. --- Theophano imp. uxor Leonis VI --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - History - 527-1081. --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453.
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