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The Empresses of Constantinople

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Ancient Constantinople, showing the Hippodrome, the Imperial Palace, and the Mosque of St Sophia Frontispiece
From the reconstruction by Djelal Essad after the Plan by Labarte
From “Les Imperatrices Byzantines de Constantinople.” By permission of H. Laurens, Paris
FACING PAGE
The Empress Theodora and her Attendants 40
Mosaic of the sixth century in St Vitale, Ravenna
From a photograph by Alinari
The Empress Irene 88
From an Ivory Plaque in the National Museum, Florence
From a photograph by Alinari
Eudocia Ingerina, Wife of Basil I 116
From Du Cange’s “Historia Byzantina”
The Empress Helena 138
From Du Cange’s “Historia Byzantina”
The Empress Zoe 166
From “Constantinople,” by E. A. Grosvenor
By permission of Little, Brown & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
Eudocia and Romanus IV 186
From an Ivory in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
From a photograph by A. Giraudon, Paris
Theodora, Wife of Michael VIII 268
From Du Cange’s “Historia Byzantina”