Anna Komnene and Her Times, Volume 29Thalia Gouma-Peterson 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. |
Contents
Echoes of the MidTwelfth Century | 15 |
Anna Komnenes | 45 |
Who Wrote the Alexiad? | 63 |
Womens Literature in Byzantium?The Case of Anna Komnene | 83 |
Passages to the Maternal | 107 |
Anna Komnene Learned Women and the Book in Byzantine Art | 125 |
Byzantines Normans | 157 |
Contributors | 187 |
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Alex Alexiad Alexios I Komnenos Alexios's reign Angold Anna Dalassene Anna Komnene Anna's Antioch aristocratic Basil Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Bogomil Bohemond Book of Essays Bryennios's Buckler Büttner-Wobst Byzan Byzantine Empire Byzantine literature Byzantium campaign Choniates Christ Chronography church claim classical Comnena Constantine Constantinople Crusade daughter deeds depicted Dieten Doukas Dumbarton Oaks empress epic episodes Essays edited father father's reign female feminist gender grandmother hero historian Homeric Howard-Johnston husband icon Iliad imperial Irene Doukaina Irene's Isaac John Komnene's Komnenian learning Leib literary Ljubarskij Macrides Magdalino Manuel Maria Maria of Alania maternal medieval Menologium Michael Psellos military monastery mother Mullett narrative Nikephoros Bryennios Norman palace Paris political portrait Prodromos Reinsch Robert Guiscard role ruse Saint scroll Sewter Sigelgaita Sinai story Studies Theodore Prodromos throne tion tradition twelfth century Virgin wife woman women writing Zonaras Zonaras's καὶ Ύλη