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Author : Carolyn Jones
Release : 2007-03
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 962/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theodora Bear by : Carolyn Jones
Download or read book Theodora Bear written by Carolyn Jones. This book was released on 2007-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet struggles to maintain order in a house filled with bossy and demanding stuffed animals.
Author : Carolyn Jones
Release : 2007-03-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 484/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theodora Bear by : Carolyn Jones
Download or read book Theodora Bear written by Carolyn Jones. This book was released on 2007-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet has a large collection of stuffed animals. Her favorite is an intrepid bear, Theodora (Teddy, to her friends), who leads the others in a variety of attempts to boss Harriet around and to claim the spot of alpha animal in the household. It is all Harriet can do to get her own way once in a while. Visit the website for Theodora Bear.
Author : Carolyn Jones
Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 627/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theodora Bear -Lib by : Carolyn Jones
Download or read book Theodora Bear -Lib written by Carolyn Jones. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnie the Pooh for the twenty-first century.
Author : Paolo Cesaretti
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 805/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theodora by : Paolo Cesaretti
Download or read book Theodora written by Paolo Cesaretti. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Italian historian’s prize-winning biography of the sixth-century Byzantine empress. Theodora of Byzantium rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful women of the ancient world. As the wife of Emperor Justinian, she was more than a mere figurehead, acting as Justinian’s partner in both politics and life. Though she was ruthlessly criticized by her contemporaries, historian and biographer Paolo Cesaretti shows her to be an ambitious woman and brilliant ruler whose cunning saved the empire time and again. She defied the conventions of her time and triumphed over those who sought to defame and destroy her. This meticulously researched and richly detailed biography won Italy’s prestigious Ginzano Cavour Prize.
Author : David Potter
Release : 2015-10-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 390/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theodora by : David Potter
Download or read book Theodora written by David Potter. This book was released on 2015-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she abandoned a successful acting career in her late teens to follow a lover whom she was legally forbidden to marry. When he left her, she was a single mother who built a new life for herself as a secret agent, in which role she met the heir to the throne. To the shock of the ruling elite, the two were married, and when Justinian assumed power in 527, they ruled the Eastern Roman Empire together. Their reign was the most celebrated in Byzantine history, bringing wealth, prestige, and even Rome itself back to the Empire. Theodora was one of the dominant political figures of her era, helping shape imperial foreign and domestic policy and twice saving her husband from threatened deposition. She played a central role trying to solve the religious disputes of her era and proactively assisted women who were being trafficked. An extraordinarily able politician, she excited admiration and hatred from those around her. Enemies wrote extensively and imaginatively about her presumed early career as a prostitute, while supporters elevated her, quite literally, to sainthood. Theodora's is a tale of a woman of exceptional talent who overcame immense obstacles to achieve incredible power, which she exercised without ever forgetting where she had come from. In Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint, David Potter penetrates the highly biased accounts of her found in the writings of her contemporaries and takes advantage of the latest research on early Byzantium to craft a modern, well-rounded, and engaging narrative of Theodora's life. This fascinating portrait will intrigue all readers with an interest in ancient and women's history.
