| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The pen of the aunt : echoes of the mid-twelfth century in the Alexiad / Angeliki Laiou -- Actions speak louder than words : Anna Komnene's attempted usurpation / Barbara Hill -- Pen and the sword : who wrote the Alexiad? / Ruth Macrides -- Women's literature in the Byzantium? The case of Anna Komnene / Diether R. Riensch -- Gender and power : passages to the maternal in Anna Komnene's Alexiad / Thalia Gouma-Peterson -- Anna Komnene, learned women, and the book in Byzantine art / Jeffrey C. Anderson -- Bohemond and the rooster : Byzantines, Normans, and the artful ruse / Emily Albu -- Why is the Alexiad a masterpiece of Byzantine literature? / Jakov Ljubarskij |
| Summary |
This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anna Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comnena, Anna, 1083-
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Comnena, Anna, 1083- Alexiad.
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Comnena, Anna, 1083- |
| SUBJECT |
Alexiad (Comnena, Anna) fast |
| Subject |
Princesses -- Byzantine Empire -- Biography
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Middle Ages -- Historiography.
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Middle Ages -- Historiography
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Princesses
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
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Byzantine Empire
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gouma-Peterson, Thalia
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| ISBN |
1134829507 |
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9781134829507 |
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