The Empresses of Constantinople

By Joseph McCabe
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Length12h 16m

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Excerpt: "In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies closed, we stood at the door of "the long, quaint gallery of the Byzantine Empresses." It seemed natural and desirable to pass on to this more interesting and less familiar series of the mistresses of the eastern Roman Empire, and the present volume will therefore tell the story of the Empresses, or Queens, as they preferred to be called, who occupied the throne set up by Constantine in New Rome, or ancient Byzantium, until the victorious Turk thrust it disdainfully aside to make way for his more spacious harem."

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Rating★★★★ 3.7 (12)
Includes Goodreads
GenreHistory, Biography and Memoir
Length12 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Empresses of
2PREFACE
3CHAPTER I VERINA AND HER DAUGHTERS
4CHAPTER II THE EARLY LIFE OF THEODORA
5CHAPTER III THE EMPRESS THEODORA
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6CHAPTER IV SOPHIA
7CHAPTER V MARTINA
8CHAPTER VI THE MOST PIOUS IRENE
9CHAPTER VII SAINT THEODORA
10CHAPTER VIII THE WIVES OF LEO THE PHILOSOPHER
11CHAPTER IX THE TAVERN-KEEPER’S DAUGHTER
12CHAPTER X TWO IMPERIAL SISTERS
13CHAPTER XI EUDOCIA
14CHAPTER XII IRENE AND ANNA COMNENA
15CHAPTER XIII A BREATH OF CHIVALRY
16CHAPTER XIV EUPHROSYNE DUCÆNA
17CHAPTER XV THE NEW CONSTANTINOPLE
18CHAPTER XVI IRENE OF MONTFERRAT
19CHAPTER XVII MARIA OF ARMENIA
20CHAPTER XVIII ANNA OF SAVOY
21CHAPTER XIX THE LAST BYZANTINE EMPRESSES

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