Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204

Lynda Garland

Taylor & Francis, Jan 4, 2002 - History - 368 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204
• Author: Lynda Garland
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2002
• ISBN: 0203024818, 9780203024812
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / General