The Empress Theophano
Subtitle: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521452960
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Women's Studies - History; History: World; Empress, consort of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor,; Byzantine Empire - History; Medieval; History; History - General History; Byzantine Empire; Europe; Empresses; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Theophano; Holy Roman Empire; Relations; Theophano,; 955-991; Biography; Congresses; Empress, consort of Otto II, H
First sentence: In the second half of the tenth century the eastern and the Ottonian empires confronted one another at a time when neither lacked aggressiveness and self-assurance, though both qualities still had to be tested against crises and setbacks.