The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian empire in Nijmegen in 991. This commemorative volume of essays, linked to a conference marking the 1000 year anniversary of her death, helps place Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic background of her age are described by a group of leading early medievalists, with essays on her education, her surroundings, and on the image of noble women in the Middle Ages.
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"This book provides diverse and valuable insights into the interaction between Byzantium and the West. Historians and art historians are the primary audience, but the discussions usually are general enough that any inquisitive reader with at least a rudimentary knowledge of Greek terms would benefit." Mark Graham, Medieval Prosopography
"...this book presents the evidence failry and sheds some welcome and unaccustomed light on the tenth century in both East and WEst." Warren Treadgold, Speculum
"...this book presents the evidence failry and sheds some welcome and unaccustomed light on the tenth century in both East and WEst." Warren Treadgold, Speculum
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The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian empire in Nijmegen in 991. This commemorative volume of essays, linked to a conference marking the 1000-year anniversary of her death, helps place Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic background of her age are described by a group of leading early medievalists, with essays on her education, her surroundings, and on the image of noble women in the middle ages.
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In the second half of the tenth century the eastern and the Ottonian empires confronted one another at a time when neither lacked aggressiveness and self-assurance, though both qualities still had to be tested against crises and setbacks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
imperatrix augusta, saints ottoniens, marriage charter, consors regni, administrando imperio, imperator augustus, liturgical vessels, ivory plaques, imperial coronation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kaiserin Theophanu, John Tzimiskes, Theophanes Continuatus, Middle Ages, Liutprand of Cremona, Henry the Wrangler, Leo the Deacon, Thietmar of Merseburg, San Marco, Hagia Sophia, New York, Cathedral Treasury, Nikephoros Phokas, Peter of Bulgaria, Maria Lekapena, Roman Empire, Symeon the New Theologian, Constantine the Great, Louis the Pious, Mount Athos, German Empire, Great Lavra, Lampert of Hersfeld, Ottonian Renaissance, Romanos Lekapenos New!
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In the second half of the tenth century the eastern and the Ottonian empires confronted one another at a time when neither lacked aggressiveness and self-assurance, though both qualities still had to be tested against crises and setbacks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
imperatrix augusta, saints ottoniens, marriage charter, consors regni, administrando imperio, imperator augustus, liturgical vessels, ivory plaques, imperial coronation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kaiserin Theophanu, John Tzimiskes, Theophanes Continuatus, Middle Ages, Liutprand of Cremona, Henry the Wrangler, Leo the Deacon, Thietmar of Merseburg, San Marco, Hagia Sophia, New York, Cathedral Treasury, Nikephoros Phokas, Peter of Bulgaria, Maria Lekapena, Roman Empire, Symeon the New Theologian, Constantine the Great, Louis the Pious, Mount Athos, German Empire, Great Lavra, Lampert of Hersfeld, Ottonian Renaissance, Romanos Lekapenos New!
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- Byzantine Coins (The Library of Numismatics Series) by Philip Grierson on 7 pages
- Rule and Conflict in an Early Medieval Society: Ottonian Saxony by Karl J. Leyser on page 18, page 150, and page 184
- Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture by Richard Krautheimer on page 50, page 213, and page 228
- Ottonian Book Illumination (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History) by H. Mayr-Harting on page 174, page 176, and page 215
- Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World by Arnold Joseph Toynbee on page 2, and page 101
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