The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 - Donald M. Nicol - Google Books

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What kind of lives did women in the Byzantine empire lead? Just how subservient were they in so male-dominated a society? In this collection of biographies Donald M. Nicol uncovers the unexpected fact that in the later years of the empire, at least, some…