The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First MillenniumCambridge University Press
edited by Adelbert Davids
ISBN: 0521452961
price: $69.95 hardcover
The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972
to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the
Ottonian empire in Nijmegen in 991. This commemorative volume of
essays, linked to a conference marking the 1000 year anniversary
of her death, helps place Theophano in a broad cultural and
historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic
background of her age are described by a group of leading early
medievalists, with essays on her education, her surroundings, and
on the image of noble women in the Middle Ages.
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