Table of Contents for Byzantine empresses : women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 / Lynda Garland.

                  CONTENTS
    
      List of illustrations                    ix
      Preface                                  xi
      List of abbreviations                   xil
      Map of Constantinople                    xx
      Introduction                              I

    PART I
    From stage to statecraft                    9
     I Theodora, wife of Justinian(527-48)      11
     2 Sophia (565-601+)                        40

    PART II
    Regents and regicides                      59
     3 Martina (?615/16-41)                     61
     4 Irene (769-802)                          73
     5 Theodora, restorer of orthodoxy (830-67+)      95
     6 The wives of Leo VI (886-919)            109
     7 Theophano (c. 955-76+)                  126
     8 Zoe Porphyrogenneta (1028-50)            136
   
   PART III
    Empresses as autocrats                    159
     9 Theodora, the last Macedonian (1042-56) 161
    10 Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1059-78+)       168
    11 The empresses of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118)     180
    12 Maria of Antioch (1161-82/3)           199
    13Euphrosyne Doukaina (1195-1203)  210

      Epilogue                                225

      Tables                                  229
      Glossary                                241
      Notes                                   246
      Bibliography                            293
      Index                                   319