Alexiad By Anna Komnene 1083~1153,

Anna Komnene - Leonora Neville - Oxford University Press

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Sep 1, 2016 - 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 First Crusade. Anna Komnene: the Life and Work of a Medieval ...

Anna Komnene, commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. She was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and his wife Irene Doukaina. Wikipedia

Born: December 1, 1083, Great Palace of Constantinople, Constantinople

Died: 1153, Constantinople

Spouse: Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger (m. 1097)

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A funeral oration written in Anna Komnene’s memory called her “a rival star” to Constantinople’s galaxy of brilliant men. Future readers of her work would not always be so enamored with her.

The Byzantine Princess and Her Magnum Opus

For centuries, historians saw her as a ruthless schemer who tried to kill her brother for the throne. But her true legacy is in her own words.

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