The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500Cambridge University Press
Donald M. Nicol
ISBN: 0521576237
price: $19.00 paperback
This is a lively collection of ten short, annotated and
illustrated biographies of aristocratic ladies of the Byzantine
empire in its final years. Some were ambitious mothers; some were
unhappy wives; some were nuns or scholars; one became the wife of
a Turkish sultan and the stepmother of a famous son; one became
the champion of the Greek refugees in Venice after the Turks had
conquered Constantinople in 1453. They demonstrate the enterprise
of some late Byzantine women in the male-dominated society of
their time.
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