The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250 1500

By Donald M. Nicol

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521576237
• ISBN13: 9780521576239
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"