BYZANTINE EMPRESSES
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BYZANTINE EMPRESSES (ebook)

LYNDA GARLAND

$1,560.00
IVA incluido
Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
ISBN:
9781134756384
Páginas:
368
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

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.

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