Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, pp xii 245, index, bibliography, map.

Very good or better with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

Introduction; the role of women in eleventh-century politics; creating the ideal Komnenian woman; titles for imperial women; the method of marriage; power through patronage; a woman's ideology; the collapse of the Komnenian system; conclusion. With chronology and family trees.