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Lynda Garland.
Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204.
Publisher: Routledge.
Publication due: 31st January 2011.
Page count: 344pp.

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Paperback ISBN 9780415619448, £24.95
Hardback (published 1998) ISBN 9780415146883, £80.00

Description:

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.