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Historical person
960–1028
Constantine VIII was Byzantine co-emperor for most of the reign of his brother Basil II and sole emperor from 1025 to 1028. He had little experience of active government, and his failure to establish a secure male succession left imperial politics dependent on the marriages of his daughters Zoe and Theodora.
Cecelia Holland’s The High City places Konstantinos VIII within a narrative shaped by empire, conquest and resistance, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and political ambition and government.
Series
The six-volume Corban Loosestrife saga begins in tenth-century Ireland when a Viking raid destroys Corban’s family and carries away his twin sister, Mav. His pursuit takes him through Dublin, Jórvík and Denmark before the family attempts a new life across the Atlantic. The later volumes shift much of…
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