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The Empresses of Constantinople

Chapter 26: Transcriber’s Note
By Joseph McCabe
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The author assembles concise biographies and portraits of the women who shared the Byzantine throne, following their varied routes to power and the frequent reversals that attended court life. Drawing on Byzantine chronicles and material remains where available, the narrative emphasizes recurring patterns: ambitious maneuvering, ritualized piety often married to practical casuistry, dramatic rises from diverse social origins, and the absence of a fixed succession that produced intrigue, comedy, and cruelty. Arranged as successive sketches, the work profiles both celebrated and obscure empresses to illuminate the social, political, and ceremonial world of the imperial court.

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH

 

Transcriber’s Note

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected and moved to precede the Index.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 106: A duplicate image was removed; the correct one remains, following page 138.

Page 116: The appearance of the transcription of Greek in the illustration will vary according to the fonts installed on your reading device.

Page 315: “Two large triremes (galleys with two banks of oars)” was printed that way; should be either “biremes” or “three banks”.

Footnote 22 (originally on page 143): “G. Schlumherger” should be “G. Schlumberger”.

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