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Title: The Empress Theophano Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521452961. Still In plastic wrap; 0.94 x 9.3 x 6.25 Inches; 360 pages; The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian empire in Nijmegen in 991. This commemorative volume of essays, linked to a conference marking the 1000 year anniversary of her death, helps place Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic background of her age are described by a group of leading early medievalists, with essays on her education, her surroundings, and on the image of noble women in the Middle Ages.. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0521452961 Biographies & Memoirs: General Medieval Byzantine Empire Women's Studies German Studies Mediaeval Medieval Studies Medieval History

Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Ancient World Books
- Book number: 4357

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