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Same bodies, different women: 'other' women in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

SYSNO ASEP	0507474
Document Type	M - Monograph Chapter
R&D Document Type	Monograph Chapter
Title	A Heretic with a Distorted Face: Sophia of Montferrat, the 'Other' Empress of Byzantium
Author(s)	Melichar, Petra (SLU-S)_{ORCID, SAI}
Source Title	Same bodies, different women: 'other' women in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. - Budapest : Trivent Publishing, 2019 / Mielke Ch. ; Znorovszky A.-B. - ISSN 2631-0562 - ISBN 978-615-81222-2-1
Pages	s. 24-39
Number of pages	16 s.
Number of pages	223
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	HU - Hungary
Keywords	empress ; disability ; Byzantine Empire
Subject RIV	AB - History
OECD category	History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
R&D Projects	GP14-08304P GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Institutional support	SLU-S - RVO:68378017
Annotation	Focusing on the idea that even a princess favored by both the senior emperor and the Pope could become an outcast and fail to succeed in her role, the present paper describes the life of Sophia of Montferrat, an Italian noblewoman of Byzantine descent who married John VIII Palaiologos in 1421. The aim of the author is to inquire into Sophia’s life and the circumstances which led to her being rejected by her husband and her subjects, preventing her from successfully integrating into Byzantine society.
Workplace	Institute of Slavonic Studies
Contact	Dana Pilátová, pilatova@slu.cas.cz, Tel.: 224 800 262
Year of Publishing	2020

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