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At least two female landowners are known from Britannia. Melania, a celebrated Christian patron and the immensely wealthy wife and cousin of Valerius Publianus, owned estates across the empire, including land in Britannia, at the beginning of the fifth century. Her portfolio is known to historians only because she and her husband were induced, by n
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with his passing, there remained only one Perfect still at large in the Languedoc. William Bélibaste was from the Corbières who, sometime before Easter 1305, had killed a fellow shepherd.
Sean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
Selene of Alexandria: A Novel of Late Antiquity
The Sultana, or ‘queen’, of Patani made a deep impression on Floris. ‘A comely oulde woman nowe about three score yeares…she was tall of person and full of majestie.’ She was also ‘a good sport’, thought nothing of hunting wild buffalo in the forest, and was a great patron of the arts. Her dance troupe was the best Floris had ever seen; and when by
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La principessa di ghiaccio (I delitti di Fjallbäcka Vol. 1) (Italian Edition)
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The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
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Though political power was usually a male privilege in Byzantium, a striking feature of the Byzantine tales is the prominence of women as political play... See more