Tamta's World

the life and encounters of a medieval noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia

This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured during a ...

Art and identity in thirteenth-Century Byzantium

Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond