The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521576239)

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.

Author: Donald M. Nicol
ISBN-10: 0521576237
ISBN-13: 9780521576239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/13/1996
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.36w x 0.51d