The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500Cambridge University Press, 29/07/1994 - 143 من الصفحات The status of women in the Byzantine empire has been much deplored, on the assumption that in so male-dominated a society all women were subservient and oppressed. In the millennium if its existence, this may sometimes have been true. But in its declining years, from 1250 to 1500, some of its women of the upper class enjoyed considerable influence, outspokenness and initiative. The ten ladies of those centuries whose biographies are presented here did not complain of male oppression. They were deeply conscious of their aristocratic lineage and their social and religious responsibilities as empresses, mothers, nuns, scholars, or as unhappy victims of diplomatic marriages. Most of them will be unfamiliar figures to western readers, though two were Italians who became Byzantines by faith and language; two were unhappily married to south Italian rulers, and one settled in Venice as protectress of the Greek refugees there after the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453. |
المحتوى
Helena Doukaina Queen of the Two Sicilies 12581266 II | 11 |
Thamar Princess of Taranto 12941309 | 24 |
Theodora Raoulaina nun and scholar c 12401300 | 33 |
Eirene Palaiologina Yolanda of Montferrat Empress | 48 |
EireneEulogia Choumnaina Palaiologina princess | 59 |
Eirene Asenina Cantacuzene Empress 13471354 | 71 |
Anna of Savoy regent and Empress 1341c 1365 | 82 |
Anna Notaras Palaiologina died 1507 | 96 |
Mara Branković of Serbia Sultanina c 14121476 | 110 |
Helena Cantacuzene Kommene Empress of Trebizond | 120 |
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The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 <span dir=ltr>Donald M. Nicol</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 1994 |
The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 <span dir=ltr>Donald M. Nicol</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 1994 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Alexios Andronico Palaeologo Andronikos II Palaiologos Angevin Anna Notaras Anna of Savoy Anna's Arta Babinger basilissa brother Byzance Byzantine Empire Byzantine Family Byzantine society Byzantium Cambridge Charles of Anjou Choumnaina Choumnos Christian church Constantine Palaiologos convent crowned CSHB D. M. Nicol daughter death Despotate of Epiros Didymoteichon died Doukas dowry Eirene Eirene's Emperor Andronikos Emperor John Emperor Michael Empress Anna Eulogia Family of Kantakouzenos father Geanakoplos George Branković Grecu Greek Helena historian husband Italy John Cantacuzene John Palaiologos Komnenos ladies Laiou Lambros Latin letters lived Loukas Notaras Manfred of Sicily Manfred's Manuel manuscript Mara Mara Branković Mara's marriage married Michael VIII monastery monk Montferrat mother Nicaea Nikephoros Gregoras Orthodox faith Pachymeres Palamas Paris Patriarch of Constantinople Planoudes Pope princess Raoul Raoulaina Roman Serbia sister Smederevo sons Spandounes stantinople Sultan Mehmed Thamar Theodora Theoleptos Thessalonica Thrace throne Trani Trebizond Turkish Turks Venetian Venice widow wife τοῦ