Theodora

TheodoraAuthor: Stella Duffy ISBN: 9781844082117 Publisher: Little Brown Year first published: 26 Jul 2011 Pages: 352 Format: Paperback softback 'Justinian took a wife: and the manner she was born and bred, and wedded to this man, tore up the Roman Empire by the very roots.' Procopius. Charming, charismatic, heroic. Theodora of Constantinople rose from nothing to become the most powerful woman in the history of Byzantine Rome. In Stella Duffy's breathtaking

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