Purple Shroud
Once, Theodora was little more than a slave, the daughter of a bear-keeper, running barefoot through the streets of Constantinople. Now she is Theoudoron, ''the Gift of God'', Empress of Byzantine Rome and the most powerful woman in the world.
''Hard-nosed, cruel, imaginative, kind, frustrated, generous, ruthless: Theodora is, in Duffy''s hands, a richly paradoxical character from whom the light o...
Once, Theodora was little more than a slave, the daughter of a bear-keeper, running barefoot through the streets of Constantinople. Now she is Theoudoron, ''the Gift of God'', Empress of Byzantine Rome and the most powerful woman in the world.
''Hard-nosed, cruel, imaginative, kind, frustrated, generous, ruthless: Theodora is, in Duffy''s hands, a richly paradoxical character from whom the light o...
