E The Empresses of Constantinople Joseph McCabe
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The Empresses of Constantinople

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  1. Preface

    8:52

  2. Verina and Her Daughters, part 1

    26:07

  3. Verina and Her Daughters, part 2

    21:51

  4. The Early Life of Theodora

    33:56

  5. The Empress Theodora

    39:16

  6. Sophia

    36:57

  7. Martina

    33:35

  8. The Most Pious Irene, part 1

    20:03

  9. The Most Pious Irene, part 2

    26:25

  10. Saint Theodora, part 1

    22:37

  11. Saint Theodora, part 2

    22:33

  12. The Wives of Leo the Philosopher

    35:39

  13. The Tavern Keeper's Daughter (Theophano), part 1

    22:57

  14. The Tavern Keeper's Daughter (Theophano), part 2

    25:58

  15. Two Imperial Sisters (Zoe and Theodora), part 1

    19:05

  16. Two Imperial Sisters (Zoe and Theodora), part 2

    28:00

  17. Eudocia

    36:52

  18. Irene and Anna Comnena, part 1

    25:13

  19. Irene and Anna Comnena, part 2

    30:37

  20. A Breath of Chivalry (1140-1185), part 1

    18:47

  21. A Breath of Chivalry (1140-1185), part 2

    18:07

  22. Euphrosyne Ducaena, part 1

    24:20

  23. Euphrosyne Ducaena, part 2

    25:47

  24. The New Constantinople, part 1

    23:33

  25. The New Constantinople, part 2

    24:40

  26. Irene of Montferrat

    25:49

  27. Maria of Armenia

    25:06

  28. Anna of Savoy, part 1

    17:59

  29. Anna of Savoy, part 2

    24:24

  30. The Last Byzantine Empresses, part 1

    25:46

  31. The Last Byzantine Empresses, part 2

    24:58

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Two sisters governing an empire offer a revealing scene in Joseph McCabe’s account of Byzantine royal women. Zoe and Theodora hear legal cases, forbid the sale of public offices and investigate missing state funds. Their efforts to reform government place questions of justice beside the palace struggles that shape this history. The account also follows Zoe’s choice of a husband, showing how marriage could become a decision about political authority.

Published in 1913, the book begins its historical account after Pulcheria’s death in 453 and ranges across successive imperial households. Its chapters include Verina, Sophia, Irene, Anna Comnena and later empresses. Readers interested in women’s roles in government will find biographies connected to succession, religious loyalties and court influence. McCabe also discusses the difficulties of assembling these lives from scattered references in Greek chronicles, giving the portraits a visible relationship to their historical sources.

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Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
231
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Rita Boutros, Nancy Midlin, MajorHistory and others