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Women in purple

Judith Herrin

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Three empresses of Byzantium in the eighth and ninth centuries--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--take center stage in this fascinating account of female power in the Eastern Roman Empire.

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OL4370048W

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ByzantiumEmpressesHistoryEastern Roman EmpireBiographyByzantine empire, historyWomen, history, middle ages, 500-1500Theodora, empress, consort of justinian i, emperor of the east, -548GeschichteKaiserinKeizerinnen

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