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1. Record Number: 27573
Author(s): Sinkevic, Ida,
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Title : Fresco-Icons in Royal Portraits of Queen Tamar

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference , 35., ( 2009): Pages 26 - 26.
Year of Publication: 2009.

2. Record Number: 28341
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Contributor(s): Richards, D.S., translator
Title : A Strange Turn of Events without Parallel [The passage concerns the royal succession in Georgia. The only heir left was female. She took the throne, but finding a suitable husband was difficult. She married the son of a neighboring Muslim ruler (once he had converted to Christianity). Subsequently the queen sent her husband away, so that she could have relationships with other men. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-ta’rikh. Part 3 The Years 589-629/1193-1231: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongol Menace. . Ashgate, 2008. Byzantine Studies Conference , 35., ( 2009): Pages 244 - 245.
Year of Publication: 2008.

3. Record Number: 5592
Author(s): Synek, Eva M.
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Title : The Life of St. Nino: Georgia's Conversion to Its Female Apostle [The author examines the suppression and later rehabilitation of St. Nino; as a woman, a foreigner, and a slave, many Georgians had difficulties in accepting her in such an important role as the person who brought Christianity to Georgia].

Source: Christianizing peoples and converting individuals. Edited by Guyda Armstrong and Ian N. Wood International Medieval Research . Brepols, 2000. Byzantine Studies Conference , 35., ( 2009): Pages 3 - 13.
Year of Publication: 2000.