by Gillian Bradshaw · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266004237
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«Pourpre impériale» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published in 1998 by Pocket in paperback (364 pages, in French).
Demetrias, a weaver at the imperial silk manufactory of Tyre, becomes embroiled in a conspiracy against the Byzantine emperor when the foreman comes for her while she is weaving a scene from the life of Christ. As the battle for Constantinople rages, she fights to protect her family and herself in a world of intrigue and imperial ambitions.
The French Pocket edition was published in 1998 and translates the English original «Imperial Purple», which appeared in 1988.
For readers of historical fiction and political intrigue set in the Byzantine Empire.
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the English Civil War.
