Book club edition. x, 194pp, with two maps. Olive green cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at spine ends and corners. A couple of mild marks on pages else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little bumped at edges and moderately sunned over spine.
A biography of the life and times of Theodora, a Byzantine courtesan who rose from the gutter to the throne, feminine and feminist to her core.
