Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium Entertainment_Gift_Guide paired with the tender artwork

paired with the tender artwork of illustrator Anait Semirdzhyan

The proxy war

becomes a famous conductor

Hugo learns all manner of Sneaking—after all

Mabel and the boy know the model ship is anything but a toy

Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium Entertainment_Gift_Guide paired with the tender artworkUnrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, Judith Herrin sheds light on the importance of marriage in imperial