Byzantine portraits

vii, 342 p. 23 cm "Le grand palais de Constantinople, by Jean Ebersolt": folded plan in pocket "Originally issued as Figures byzantines. Paris: Armand Colin, 1906." The life of a Byzantine empress.--Athenais.--Theodora.--Irene.--A middle-class woman of the eighth century.--The blessed Theodora.--The romantic adventures of Basil the Macedonian.--The four marriages of Leo the Wise.--Theophano.--Zoë Porphyrogenita.--A middle-class family of the eleventh century.--Anna Dalassena: a noble family of the eleventh century.--The wisdom of Cecaumenus.--The sacred palace: key to plan