The Byzantine Lady : Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 (Canto original series)

The Byzantine Lady : Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 (Canto original series)

Editorial Reviews
Review
'... highly readable book.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'... construct[s] in vivid detail the history of the Paelaeologan epoch.' Anglo-Hellenic Review

Book Description
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.

The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 (Canto original series),Donald M. Nicol,Cambridge University Press,0521576237,Europe - Greece,Historical - General,History,History - General History,History: World,Reference,Aristocracy (Social class) - Byzantine Empire - Biography,Biography: historical,Europe,European history: c 500 to c 1500,History / Europe / General,c 1000 CE to c 1500,c 1500 to c 1600

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