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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:
This book introduces new methods of research for studying the Alexiad, aiming primarily at analysing Anna Komnene's literary expression.
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for writing history and plotting to become empress by murdering her brother. This book explains how Anna broke her cult
Language: en
Pages: 1069
Pages: 1069
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-06 - Publisher: Penguin UK
A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:
"The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offe
Language: en
Pages: 172
Pages: 172
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Traces the history of the Greek language from the immediately postclassical or Hellenistic period to the present day. In particular, the historical roots of mod