AMALASUINTHA: The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World

Vitiello argues that Amalasuintha's story reveals a key phrase in the transformation of queenship in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a time in which royal women slowly began exercising political power. Vitiello demonstrates the ways in which her life and public image show the influence of late Roman and Byzantine imperial models on the formation of female political power. Photos.