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3. Female Imperial Authority: Empresses of the Theodosian House: Galla Placidia
Carolyn L. Connor
Description: Women of Byzantium
Women of Byzantium
~ The stolid profiles of the women of the Valentinian and Theodosian dynasties as they appear on coins minted during the late fourth and fifth centuries offer slight hints at some of the issues behind these images. Coinage was a traditional mode of projecting emperors’ images throughout the empire, indicating in its formulaic...
Author
Carolyn L. Connor
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2004 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.45-72
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00178.007
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19102
Chapter subject tags:Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500Empresses--Byzantine Empire--BiographyCoins, ByzantineByzantine Empire--Civilization--To 527Empresses in art

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3. Female Imperial Authority: Empresses of the Theodosian House: Galla Placidia