Pulcheria
Empress of Byzantium
GUY COLLINS
Sinopsis
Pulcheria of Constantinople (399-453 CE) reshaped Rome and Christianity, forging the Virgin Marys cult and saving Byzantium. Hers is an untold history of power, faith, politics. She sparred with courtiers, bishops and emperors, and she ruled as empress of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Pulcheria did something no empress before, or since, has done. She leveraged her gender – and her virginity – into a new source of imperial power that braided politics and religion in a way that would flourish for a millennium. She faced down own of the Churchs greatest theological controversies and was fundamental in shaping how the Virgin Mary is worshipped to this day.
Her story brings the richness of the Byzantine world vividly to life, and Pulcheria establishes this largely forgotten woman empress as a key figure in the history of Byzantium and the Christian Church.
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: The History Press
ISBN: 9781837054039
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 06/05/2027
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