Titlebook: Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses; Image and Empire Anne McClanan Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc

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The Empress Ariadne and the Politics of Transition,ial women such as Helena, Eudokia, and Pulcheria had so successfully developed. Her reign marks the transition to the altered conception of the imperial woman that emerged in the early Byzantine period. Theodosian predecessors had mostly elaborated Roman imperial imagery, but with Ariadne a new sens

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The Patronage of the Empress Theodora and Her Contemporaries,emporary sources demonstrate its variety and extent. Theodora’s patronage affords the chance to see how typical, indeed banal, her fulfillment of the expectations of her role was. Records of the beneficence of the Emperor Justinian’s wife appear in several sixth-century sources, the best known being

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The Visual Representation of the Empress Theodora,ons of depicting imperial women. Glorious messages of imperial might such as the mosaics in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna can mislead us into overestimating Theodora’s importance in her era. The Empress Theodora wielded less power than both her predecessor Ariadne and her successor Sophia, but

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Book 2002seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patte

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