La novela de Esther. Un modelo hagiográfico para emperatrices ortodoxas

Abstract

This paper proposes reading the narratives on the marriage of Theodosius II and Eudocia in Malalas’ Chronography (sixth century), which can be the remnant of a Monophysite Vita Eudociae, and on the marriage of Theophilos and Theodora in the Life and encomium of Theodora (ninth century) as actualisations of the ‘novel of Esther’.