ABSTRACT
Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I From stage to statecraft
part |2 pages
Part II Regents and regicides
part |2 pages
Part III Empresses as autocrats