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This book focuses on the Byzantine court in Constantinople and the young females (aged fourteen or younger) who married into the royal and imperial households of Byzantium and medieval Europe to eventually become queens or empresses. Some married within their own culture, while many travelled hundreds of miles from their homes to encounter new customs, languages, and sometimes religion.
Covering the period from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, this survey addresses a range of neglected areas of study: the crucial importance of children in society in general; the key responsibilities laid on girls and the vital roles of female children in building alliances; and the promotion of political and religious agendas. It addresses both history and art, with evidence drawn from historical sources, religious foundations, manuscripts, wall paintings, ivories, and metalwork.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
A Note on Spellings, Transliteration, and Names
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Child Brides, a Perspective
Chapter 1. Peacemakers, Underage Rulers, and Imperial Coups
Chapter 2. Mothers-in-Law and Unexpected Roles in the Holy Roman Empire and in Georgia
Chapter 3. Georgian and Byzantine Female Power in the Doukan and Komnenian Courts
Chapter 4. Queens of Jerusalem, and French and Hungarian Empresses
Chapter 5. A Palaiologan Court, Hungarian and Italian Brides, and a Serbian Sacrifice
Chapter 6. Aristocratic Rivalry, Interfaith Marriages, a Bulgarian Bride, and a Girl from Moscow
Conclusions
Appendix. A Note on the Sources
Bibliography
Index
