The Empress Theophano
Subtitle: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521524674
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History - General History; History; History: World; Byzantine Empire; Holy Roman Empire; Europe - Germany; History / Europe / General; History / Germany; Theophano, --Empress, consort of Otto II, Hol; Theophano,--Empress, consort of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor,--955-991--Congresses; Europe - General
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.