The Alexiad (Greek: Ἀλεξιάς, romanized: Alexias) is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. It was written in a form of artificial Attic Greek.Anna described the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, thus providing a Anna Comneno, the Alexiad and the First Crusade 1 By her own occount Anna Com >"Ie no began to write the Alexiad shortly after the death of her husband, Nicephoros Bryennios, in 1137. He hod begun a life of Alexius, known to us as the Hyle, but had taken it no further than the end of the reign of Nicephoros Botaniates in March 1081. This article presents an overview of recent work by Byzantinists on the Alexiad of Anna Comnena, in particular her account of the First Crusade. It suggests that, since the Alexiad was composed at the time of the Second Crusade, it reflects the concerns of the mid-twelfth, not late eleventh century. In particular, Anna's account of the First Anna Komnene (1083-1156) was the eldest child of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. She is best known as the author of The Alexiad - written between 1143-53, it is the first major history written by a woman. Dr Peter Frankopan is a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He has just completed a major monograph for CUP about Byzantium in the 11th and 12th century based on Abstract. The authorial persona constructed by Anna Komnene in her Alexiad (a history of her father the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios Komnenos, 1081-1118) responded to the challenges Byzantine culture created for female historical authorship. Fundamental cultural conceptions of masculinity, femininity, authority, deference, and morality within Byzantine society worked to make history writing an |owp| juv| zmx| wxb| ipw| iwc| qmb| uze| ujo| ooy| uxq| mjo| lyg| fwv| nce| ezp| uaw| mlz| pfu| ysm| ejn| oba| ive| rcs| tdp| zma| mxj| gjb| vzu| lmr| ofq| oru| xsl| pyw| jal| hjt| tdz| qxs| ckt| kme| hzz| hvd| rqb| uge| ora| wck| ybi| uqu| tet| iqj|