The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500

ISBN-13: 9780521576239 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 164 str.

Donald M. Nicol; Donald M. Nicol

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… construct[s] in vivid detail the history of the Paelaeologan epoch.' Anglo-Hellenic Review

Spis treści

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.