Michael And Theodora

Author : AMELIA E. BARR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033644277

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MICHAEL AND THEODORA by AMELIA E. BARR Pdf

Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Russia
ISBN : NYPL:33433074800347

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Michael and Theodora by Amelia E. Barr Pdf

Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Russia
ISBN : OCLC:1012945644

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Michael and Theodora by Amelia E. Barr Pdf

Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0483876925

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Michael and Theodora by Amelia E. Barr Pdf

Excerpt from Michael and Theodora: A Russian Story Now, we will talk a little of the good Prince, your father. How brave he was! How truly pious! How noble and how handsome' When he was mounted on his black horse when he wore his white and gold uniform there was no prince in all Russia that was fit to hold his stirrup. Indeed this is the truth. You yourself, dear Princess, can remember? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356771165

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Michael and Theodora by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199392537

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Theodora by David Potter Pdf

Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she abandoned a successful acting career in her late teens to follow a lover whom she was legally forbidden to marry. When he left her, she was a single mother who built a new life for herself as a secret agent, in which role she met the heir to the throne. To the shock of the ruling elite, the two were married, and when Justinian assumed power in 527, they ruled the Eastern Roman Empire together. Their reign was the most celebrated in Byzantine history, bringing wealth, prestige, and even Rome itself back to the Empire. Theodora was one of the dominant political figures of her era, helping shape imperial foreign and domestic policy and twice saving her husband from threatened deposition. She played a central role trying to solve the religious disputes of her era and proactively assisted women who were being trafficked. An extraordinarily able politician, she excited admiration and hatred from those around her. Enemies wrote extensively and imaginatively about her presumed early career as a prostitute, while supporters elevated her, quite literally, to sainthood. Theodora's is a tale of a woman of exceptional talent who overcame immense obstacles to achieve incredible power, which she exercised without ever forgetting where she had come from. In Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint, David Potter penetrates the highly biased accounts of her found in the writings of her contemporaries and takes advantage of the latest research on early Byzantium to craft a modern, well-rounded, and engaging narrative of Theodora's life. This fascinating portrait will intrigue all readers with an interest in ancient and women's history.

Author : Georgije Ostrogorski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 0813511984

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History of the Byzantine State by Georgije Ostrogorski Pdf

Succinctly traces the Byzantine Empire's thousand-year course with emphasis on political development and social, aesthetic, economic and ecclesiastical factors

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN68V6

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Pdf

Author : Alice-mary Talbot
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0884022684

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Byzantine Defenders of Images by Alice-mary Talbot Pdf

These vitae feature holy men and women who opposed imperial edicts and suffered for their defense of images, from the nun Theodosia whose efforts to save the icon of Christ Chalkites made her the first iconodule martyr, to Symeon of Lesbos, the pillar saint whose column was attacked by religious fanatics. The second volume in this series introduces saints who were active during the period of the iconoclastic controversy in Byzantium (726-843). For almost a century and a half, theological and popular opinions were strongly divided on the question of the manufacture and veneration icons of Christ, the Virgin, and saints. Life of St. Theodosia of Constantinople Life of St. Stephen the Younger Life of St. Anthousa of Mantineon Life of St. Anthousa, Daughter of Constantine V Life of the Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople Life of Sts. David, Symeon, and George of Lesbos Life of St. Ioannikios Life of St. Theodora the Empress

Author : Lynda Garland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134756384

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Byzantine Empresses by Lynda Garland Pdf

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do.

Author : Guida M. Jackson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469113531

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Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific by Guida M. Jackson Pdf

Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific presents biographical sketches of hundreds of women leaders from earliest recorded history down to the present time. It is the first of two volumes giving data on women leaders from every continent and island in the world; the second volume deals with Europe and countries of the Western Hemisphere. Each book is divided into two sections. Part I of this volume deals with African women leaders; Part II with Asian, Middle East and Pacific women. Within each section, which is introduced by an essay overview, entries are arranged alphabetically. Suggestions for further reading on the subject appear at the end of each entry. Not all entries are merely recitations of facts. Some womens lives do not lend themselves to being reduced to statistics. Many were much too colorful, or lusty, or bloodthirsty to fit into a neat categorical description. How do you easily characterize the rule of the African queen who hacked her servant to death after she was through using him as a chairjust to intimidate her new Portuguese overlord? Who kept as many as thirty slaves as sexual partners, supposedly killing them off when she had finished with them? How do you gloss over the actions of the newly enthroned Persian queen who ordered her stepbrother strangled, then had gold and silver coins struck bearing her new title: Purity of the earthly world and of the faith? How do you describe nicely the actions of the Chinese queen who chopped off her own hand to make a point to a man she had just condemned to death? How do you ascribe feminine traits to a grandmother who tried to kill her own grandson to keep him from succeeding her on the throne she herself had stolen? On the other hand, how do you do justice to the Queen of Tonga without mention of her commanding sizesix feet two inchesor her forty-seven-year devotion to matters far beyond mere governance but of more importance to her subjects: like establishing handicraft outlets to market the wares of her people? Or to the Queen of Thailand who acted as Regent while the King, a devout Buddhist, performed his meditations and duties as a monk? She directed much more than affairs of state; her concern for the common people led her to promote the export of hand-woven Thai silk and to establish a chain of shops selling native crafts. She also organized the Thai Red Cross for aid to refugees, orphans, wounded soldiers, and flood victims. These and dozens of stories like them make African, Asian, Middle East, and Pacific Women Leaders a unique treasure that is hard to put down. Although most of the entries in this volume deal with women rulers, a portion of the book is devoted to women in leadership roles other than those of queen, empress, prime minister, or chieftainess. Of these additional entries, the majority deals with contemporary women judges, secretaries of state, cabinet members, or legislators of unusual influence and power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031724

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THE LADIES' COMPANION AND MONTHLY MAGAZINE by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fashion
ISBN : OXFORD:555032787

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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée by Anonim Pdf

Author : Despoina Ariantzi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110576603

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Coming of Age in Byzantium by Despoina Ariantzi Pdf

The various phases of life and their manifestations in theory and social reality constitute a well-established area of research in the fields of western medieval studies and ancient history. In this respect the Byzantine East has been widely neglected. This volume will focus on the Byzantine experience of adolescence, which may be defined as the biological transition from childhood to adulthood as well as the social and psychological experience of leaving the care of parents, guardians and family groups and the gradual integration into adult society. The contributions gathered therein treat seven subtopics that correspond to crucial questions in the current research on adolescence: the legal status of adolescents; the mechanisms of transition from childhood to adolescence; the socialisation and gradual integration into adult society; adolescents in Byzantine art; psychological aspects of adolescence from medieval to modern times; illnesses of adolescents; adolescents in the western medieval world.The focus is on the Middle and Late Byzantine Period, where historical, hagiographical,legal and medical sources offer rich material for an investigation of these aspects. The book contributes to a better understanding of all these questions and to show future trajectories for research.

Author : Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786488605

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Screwball Comedy and Film Noir by Thomas C. Renzi Pdf

This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two popular Hollywood staples that emerged around the same time. Despite their contrast in tone and theme, "Screwball" and "Noir" have many narrative elements in common. The author defines the two genres, discusses their historical development and inter-related conventions, and offers detailed comparative analyses of a number of films, among them The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday (screwballs), and Gilda and Sunset Blvd. (noirs).