Catalog > Human Sciences > History > Barbara Hill: Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204 (PDF)

Barbara Hill
Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204 [PDF ebook]
Power, Patronage and Ideology

Support

Cover of Barbara Hill: Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204 (PDF)

This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the death of the emperor Basil II in 1025 to the sacking of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders in 1204, spanning the rise and fall of the successful Komnenos dynasty. Eleventh-century Byzantine history is unusual in that imperial women were able to wield immense power and in this ground-breaking book Dr Hill explores why this was possible and, equally, why they lost their position of influence a century later.

€64.47

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 258 ● ISBN 9781317884668 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3226914 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

228,009 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Madeleine Bingham: Scotland Under Mary Stuart

Madeleine Bingham: Scotland Under Mary Stuart

Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots. It describes in extensive and colourful detail the way people of all ranks of society …

Cover of Robert Black: Studies in Renaissance Humanism and Politics

Robert Black: Studies in Renaissance Humanism and Politics

The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black”s research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at it …

Cover of Efraim Inbar: Democracies and Small Wars

Efraim Inbar: Democracies and Small Wars

By their nature, democracies clearly have greater constraints than autocratic regimes on their freedom of action as they have to meet constitutional, legal and moral criteria in their use of force. T …

Cover of P G. Boyle: Eisenhower

P G. Boyle: Eisenhower

Eisenhower is the president who established America as a superpower. He had already launched his reputation as the leading US military figure in the Second World War and then as supreme commander of …

Cover of Jonathan Spangler: The Society of Princes

Jonathan Spangler: The Society of Princes

The princes étrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, who maintained their unofficial status as ”foreigners” due to membership in sovereign r …

Cover of Jamie Cawley: Beliefs

Jamie Cawley: Beliefs

An accessible, objective understanding of what the major ‘beliefs’ are about. The major beliefs include: Polytheism, Judaism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Nationalism, Communi …

Cover of Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar: The Sundarbans

Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar: The Sundarbans

The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- e …

Cover of George L. Priest: The Rise of Law and Economics

George L. Priest: The Rise of Law and Economics

This is a history—though, intentionally, a brief history—of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.S. college and law school academy, though the field has expanded to Europe and …

Cover of Melanie Challenger: How to Be Animal

Melanie Challenger: How to Be Animal

Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves?How to Be Animal offers a radical take on what it mean …

Cover of Professor David Roochnik: Eat, Drink, Think

Professor David Roochnik: Eat, Drink, Think

What role does food play in the shaping of humanity? Is sharing a good meal with friends and family an experience of life at its best, or is food merely a burdensome necessity? David Roochnik explore …