The Empress Theophano

A volume of essays on the Byzantine princess Theophano who died as empress of the Ottonian Empire in 991.

Zusammenfassung
The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian Empire in Nijmegen in 991. This volume of essays places Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context.

Inhalt
List of illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Theophano divina gratia imperatrix augusta: western and eastern emperorship in the later tenth century Karl Leyser; 2. Theophano, the western empress from the east Odilo Engels; 3. Theophano: an empress reconsidered K. Ciggaar; 4. Theophano: considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess Judith Herrin; 5. The education of the daughters of the nobility in the Ottonian empire Johanna Maria Van Winter; 6. Marriage negotiations between Byzantium and the west and the name of Theophano in Byzantium (eighth to tenth centuries) Adelbert Davids; 7. A marriage too far? Maria Lekapena and Peter of Bulgaria Jonathan Shepard; 8. The image of women of the nobility in the German chronicles of the tenth to the eleventh centuries P. Bange; 9. Ottonian intellectual culture in the tenth century and the role of Theophano Rosamond McKitterick; 10. Froumund's Greek: an analysis of fo. 12v of the Codex Vindoboniensis Graecus 114, followed by a comparison with a Latin-Greek wordlist in MS 179 Auxerre fo. 137v ff W. J. Aerts; 11. The art of Byzantium and its relation to Germany in the time of the empress Theophano Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosigne; 12. Imperial art in Byzantium from Basil I to Basil II (867 1025) E. Voordeckers; 13. Did Theophano leave her mark on the Ottonian sumptuary arts? H. Westermann-Angerhausen; 14. The palace of Nijmegen in the tenth and early eleventh centuries Bert Thissen; 15. The so-called 'women's gallery' in the medieval church: an import from Byzantium Hiltije F. H. Zomer; 16. The human and economic context L. F. Genicot; 17. The palace and the monastery in Byzantine spiritual life, c. 1000, A. J. Van Der Aalst.

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