List of illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Theophano divina gratia imperatrix augusta: western and eastern emperorship in the later tenth century Karl Leyser; 2. Theophano, the western empress from the east Odilo Engels; 3. Theophano: an empress reconsidered K. Ciggaar; 4. Theophano: considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess Judith Herrin; 5. The education of the daughters of the nobility in the Ottonian empire Johanna Maria Van Winter; 6. Marriage negotiations between Byzantium and the west and the name of Theophano in Byzantium (eighth to tenth centuries) Adelbert Davids; 7. A marriage too far? Maria Lekapena and Peter of Bulgaria Jonathan Shepard; 8. The image of women of the nobility in the German chronicles of the tenth to the eleventh centuries P. Bange; 9. Ottonian intellectual culture in the tenth century and the role of Theophano Rosamond McKitterick; 10. Froumund's Greek: an analysis of fo. 12v of the Codex Vindoboniensis Graecus 114, followed by a comparison with a Latin-Greek wordlist in MS 179 Auxerre fo. 137v ff W. J. Aerts; 11. The art of Byzantium and its relation to Germany in the time of the empress Theophano Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosigne; 12. Imperial art in Byzantium from Basil I to Basil II (867-1025) E. Voordeckers; 13. Did Theophano leave her mark on the Ottonian sumptuary arts? H. Westermann-Angerhausen; 14. The palace of Nijmegen in the tenth and early eleventh centuries Bert Thissen; 15. The so-called 'women's gallery' in the medieval church: an import from Byzantium Hiltije F. H. Zomer; 16. The human and economic context L. F. Genicot; 17. The palace and the monastery in Byzantine spiritual life, c. 1000, A. J. Van Der Aalst.