Search -
The Byzantine Lady : Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 (Canto S.)
The Byzantine Lady Ten Portraits 12501500 - Canto S. Author:Donald M. Nicol This is a lively collection of ten short, annotated and illustrated biographies of aristocratic ladies of the Byzantine empire in its final years. Some were ambitious mothers; some were unhappy wives; some were nuns or scholars; one became the wife of a Turkish sultan and the stepmother of a famous son; one became the champion of the Greek refu... more »gees in Venice after the Turks had conquered Constantinople in 1453. They demonstrate the enterprise of some late Byzantine women in the male-dominated society of their time.« less