Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian by Leonora Neville

Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture

Leonora Neville

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the ...

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