IRENE, Byzantine Empress

īrēˈnē, c.750–803, Byzantine empress (797–802). She served (780–90) as regent for her son, Constantine VI, and later was made (792) joint ruler. Devoted to the Orthodox Church, she bent most of her efforts to suppressing iconoclasm. In 797 Irene had her son deposed and blinded, and she ascended the throne. Her accession served as pretext for Charlemagne to be crowned emperor in 800. Irene was deposed in 802 and died in exile.

See C. Diehl, Byzantine Portraits (1906; tr. 1927).

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Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204
Book by Lynda Garland; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453, Byzantine Empire--History--527-1081, Empresses--Byzantine Empire--Biography, Leadership In Women--Byzantine Empire--History
...adhered to by Irene Doukaina and other Komnenian empresses. 49 The celebrations...their daughters Irene and Anna to members of the Byzantine nobility is further...inappropriate for an empress consort. Not...to flatter the empress. While Alexios...of all other empresses. 53 Nikolaos...Palaiologue dynasty. Irene, the eldest...
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A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography
Book by Egon Wellesz; Clarendon Press, 1961
Subjects: Church Music--Orthodox Eastern Church, Hymns, Greek, Music, Byzantine, Music, Greek And Roman
...Jewish usage, 40 . --, Byzantine: metrical structure...West, 108 ; see also Byzantine music, instrumental. Iran: influence on Byzantine civilization, 29 sq...Irenaeus, St., 66 n. Irene, Empress, 169 . Isidore of Miletus...
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History of the Byzantine Empire: From Constantine the Great to the Epoch of the Crusades - Vol. 1
Book by A. A. Vasiliev, S. Ragozin; University of Wisconsin, 1928
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History
...problem of whether or not in the Byzantine Empire women could exercise...authority of supreme power was Irene, the mother of the unfortunate...official documents and decrees Irene was not called "empress," but "Irene, the faithful emperor basileus...
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Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography, and Everyday Life
Book by Nevra Necipoglu; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Istanbul (Turkey)--Antiquities, Byzantine--Congresses, Istanbul (Turkey)--History--To 1453--Congresses
...194 ta Iordanou, 253 , 254 ta Ioulianes, see House of Anicia Juliana Iraq, 334 Irene, empress, 243 Irene Choumnaina Palaiologina, 339 40, 341 , 343 Irene Komnene, empress, 117 , 118 , 133 , 148 , 290n Irene of Brunswick, 337 Irene of...
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The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire
Book by J. M. Hussey; Clarendon Press, 1990
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--Church History, Orthodox Eastern Church--Byzantine Empire
...attempt to repudiate his wife Irene Ducaena when he wanted to marry...fascinating already twicewed ex-Empress Maria Alania. Alexius even had himself crowned without Irene which alarmed the Ducas family...redoubtable Anna Dalassena, hated Irene and the Ducas connection. Moreover...
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Constructing a Byzantine Augusta: a Greek Book for a French Bride
Journal article by Cecily J. Hilsdale; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, 2005
Subjects: Art history, Manuscripts, Royalty
...that the empress provided...the later Byzantine period...Bertha-Irene, Manuels...foreign-born empress.92 The...sebastokratorissa to the Byzantine image of...into the Byzantine court, language...When in 781 Empress Irene arranged...
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The Liturgical Functions of Consecrated Women in the Byzantine Church
Journal article by Valerie A. Karras; Theological Studies, Vol. 66, 2005
...exception because the Empress Theodora is shown...the orthodoxy of the Byzantine Church. In 1274, (19) the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII...and promised that the Byzantine Church would immediately...well. Instead, the Byzantines, clergy and laity...including his own sister, Irene-Eulogia, Epiros...
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Saint Eudokia and the Imperial Household of Leo Vi
Journal article by Sharon E. J Gerstel; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, 1997
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Byzantine civilization, Leo VI, Eastern Roman Emperor (Leo the Wise) (866-912), Saints
...ranking member of the Byzantine court, inaugurated...Eudokia must have been an empress. Second, it is unlikely...commemorated as "the empress Eudokia, whose memory...emperor Justinian and the empresses Pulcheria and Irene, whose tombs were also...work of art in which an empress wears one-to a period...
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German Great-Power Relations in the Pages of Simplicissimus, 1896-1914
Journal article by Peter J. Hugill; The Geographical Review, Vol. 98, 2008
Subjects: German Empire, 1871-1914--Media coverage, German foreign relations--Media coverage, Simplicissimus (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation
...beating up the Chinese Empress with her umbrella while...governess, by now named "Irene," the Japanese character...attached to the name "Irene," Irene being not only the Greek...the eighth-century Byzantine empress who served as...
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Women of Byzantium
Journal article by Warren Treadgold; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Women of Byzantium (Book)--Book reviews
...and Galla Placidia an empress. In part two, "Early...noblewoman Anicia Juliana, empresses through Justinians...three, "The Middle Byzantine Period (843-1204...Connor discusses St. Irene of Chrysobalantum as...depicted in art, the empress Zoe as an imperial...epilogue" on Melane, the Byzantine widow of a Mongol khan...less educated than Byzantines (247). Throughout...
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The Elusive Eastern Empire: As the Royal Academy in London Opens a Major New Exhibition on the Artistic Splendours of the Byzantine Empire, Dionysios Stathakopoulos Surveys Its History, from Its Foundation in 324 to Its Conquest in 1453
Magazine article by Dionysios Stathakopoulos; History Today, Vol. 58, November 2008
Subjects: Byzantine Empire, 330-1453--History, Byzantine antiquities--Collections and collecting
...to-mid-eighth century Byzantine emperors had religious images...Iconoclasm was reversed by an empress: the widowed Irene (r...became the dominant theme in Byzantine affairs. Both cultures...not always favoured by the Byzantines. After 1204 a great number...Averil Cameron, The Byzantines (Blackwell, 2006); Byzantium...Lecturer in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Kings College...
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The Persistence of Byzantium
Magazine article by Warren Treadgold; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Autumn 1998
Subjects: Byzantium (Ancient city)--Analysis, Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc.--Analysis
...rivalries, and Byzantines cared far less...unsupported by any Byzantine source. As...Two Byzantine empresses, Irene and Theodora...however, Byzantine women showed...group. Neither Irene (a determined...almost all Byzantines of either sex...


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Royal in Byzantium
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 17, 2002
...Byline: Bart McDowell Empress Irene wore the purple robes...only son, heir to the Byzantine crown, in the Porphyra...turned against her, Irene had him blinded - his...every sense, the three empresses - Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora...


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encyclopedia articles on: Irene Byzantine Empress  - 5 results

 
 
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Irene , Byzantine Empress
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IRENE , Byzantine empress ire ne, c.750 803, Byzantine empress...efforts to suppressing iconoclasm . In 797 Irene had her son deposed and blinded, and...Charlemagne to be crowned emperor in 800. Irene was deposed in 802 and died in exile...
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Rulers of the Byzantine Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RULERS OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE (table) Rulers of the Byzantine Empire Emperor (or Empress) Dates of Reign Constantine I (the Great...IV (the Khazar) 775 80 Constantine VI 780 97 Irene 797 802 Nicephorus I 802 11 Stauracius 811 Michael...
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Nicaea, Second Council Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NICAEA, SECOND COUNCIL OF 787, 7th ecumenical council, convened by Byzantine Empress Irene . Called to refute iconoclasm , the council declared that images ought to be venerated (but not worshiped) and ordered them restored...
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Nicephorus I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NICEPHORUS I d. 811, Byzantine emperor (802 11). He was minister of finance under Empress Irene , whom he deposed and succeeded. He improved...he exiled in 809. Nicephorus consolidated Byzantine strength in the Balkans. He was killed while...
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Iconoclasm
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Gregory III, and Adrian I . Empress Irene restored the images and St. Theodore...iconoclastic controversy stimulated Byzantine artists to strive for spiritual...bas-reliefs, and mosaics (see Byzantine art and architecture ). Iconoclasm...


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