| The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250 1500 Contributor(s): Nicol, Donald M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521576237 ISBN-13: 9780521576239 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 Annotation: This is a lively collection of 10 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Europe - Greece (see Also Ancient - Greece) |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Canto Original |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.36" W x 8.54" (0.38 lbs) 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |