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Joseph McCabe. The Empresses of Constantinople
The Empresses of Constantinople
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PREFACE
THE EMPRESSES OF. CONSTANTINOPLE. CHAPTER I. VERINA AND HER DAUGHTERS
CHAPTER II. THE EARLY LIFE OF THEODORA
CHAPTER III. THE EMPRESS THEODORA
CHAPTER IV. SOPHIA
CHAPTER V. MARTINA
CHAPTER VI. THE MOST PIOUS IRENE
CHAPTER VII. SAINT THEODORA
CHAPTER VIII. THE WIVES OF LEO THE PHILOSOPHER
CHAPTER IX. THE TAVERN-KEEPER’S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER X. TWO IMPERIAL SISTERS
CHAPTER XI. EUDOCIA
CHAPTER XII. IRENE AND ANNA COMNENA
CHAPTER XIII. A BREATH OF CHIVALRY
CHAPTER XIV. EUPHROSYNE DUCÆNA
CHAPTER XV. THE NEW CONSTANTINOPLE
CHAPTER XVI. IRENE OF MONTFERRAT
CHAPTER XVII. MARIA OF ARMENIA
CHAPTER XVIII. ANNA OF SAVOY
CHAPTER XIX. THE LAST BYZANTINE EMPRESSES
Footnote
INDEX
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Joseph McCabe
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In November 475 Zeno fled across the water to Chalcedon. Ships were kept for such emergencies at the foot of the gardens, so that an imperial family might be well on the way to the Asiatic shore before an enemy could break through the hedge of guards. Zeno, protesting that his life was threatened by Verina’s servants, fled precipitately, since he left Ariadne under the power of her mother. It seems that Verina virtually imprisoned her daughter, but Ariadne escaped and joined her husband. From the coast they travelled, in a common cart, to the wild fastnesses of Isauria, from which another turn of the wheel will presently recall them to the glittering palace.
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