Usamah ibn munqidh biography of nancy
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A Brief History of the Roman Empire
Did Theophano, empress of Romanos II and mother to the ung emperors Basil II and Constantine VIII, kill her husband as was popularly believed? The evidence fryst vatten thin on the ground for the death of her first husband, Romanos and father to her children Basil, Constantine and Anna, yet she seems to be implicated in the death her her second husband Nikeophoros Phokas. When Romanos II died, Theophano was still in childbed, having delivered her baby daughter Anna not four days before. This does not preclude her from having a grabb in his death, that is to say ordering an assassin to do so, but it does not seem likely as in that time, a woman’s children were considered orphans if they did not have a father, not counting the ställning eller tillstånd of the mother. Also, with her husband dead, it would put her own ställning eller tillstånd in a very precarious situation. Theophano ( not to be confused with my character Theophana, the fictionalized bastard sister of Basil II), the
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The Middle Ages in texts and texture : reflections on Medieval sources
Jason Glenn, Robert Brentano Published in 2011 in Toronto Tonawanda NY by University of Toronto Press
Hearing voices in late antiquity : an aural approach to Augustine's Confessions / William North -- Confessor saints and the origins of monasticism : the lives of Saints Antony and Martin / John M. ... show more
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- https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:001886289
- Title:
- The Middle Ages in texts and texture : reflections on Medieval sources / edited by Jason Glenn.
- ISBN:
- 9781442604902
1442604905 - Author:
- Glenn, Jason
Brentano, Robert, 1926-2002 viaf - Publisher:
- Toronto ; Tonawanda, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c2011.
- Description:
- XVIII, 358 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents:
- Hearing voices in late antiquity : an aural approach to Augustine's Confessions / William North -
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- Reviewed by:
- Joel Rosenthal
- jrosenthal@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Robert Brentano (1926-2002) was a medievalist of considerable distinction. His Rome before Avignon (1974) and his Two Churches: England and Italy in the Thirteenth Century (1988) continue to hold their own as important and innovative monographs. In addition, and among other honors, he served a term as president of the Medieval Academy. But beyond these milestones of extra-murals recognition, he was a dedicated and charismatic teacher of medieval history, for over four decades drawing students at the University of California at Berkeley into the intriguing mysteries and challenges of that seemingly so-distant world, the European Middle Ages. And in keeping with this aspect of his memorable classroom persona, twenty- three of his former graduate students have offered this volume in his memory. It is a much expanded follow-up to some sessions that former students and colleagues held in Brentano's honor at the 2002 In