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Garland L. Byzantine Empresses. Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204

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Garland L. Byzantine Empresses. Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204
London – New York: Routledge, 1999. – 364 p.
ISBN 0-415-14688-7 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-203-02481-8 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-14269-1 (Glassbook Format)
List of illustrations
Map of Constantinople
From stage to statecraft
Theodora, wife of Justinian (527–48)
Sophia (565–601+)
Regents and regicides
Martina (?615/16–41)
Irene (769–802)
Theodora, restorer of orthodoxy (830–67+)
The wives of Leo VI (886–919)
Theophano (c. 955–76+)
Zoe Porphyrogenneta (1028–50)
Empresses as autocrats
Theodora, the last Macedonian (1042–56)
Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1059–78+)
The empresses of Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118)
Maria of Antioch (1161–82/3)
Euphrosyne Doukaina (1195–1203)
Epilogue
Tables
Index
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