The Alexiad

by Comnena, Anna

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Title Statements

Full title :The Alexiad / Anna Komnene ; translated by E.R.A. Sewter.

Summary

Anna Comnena (1083-1153) wrote The Alexiad as an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. It is also an important source of information on the Byzantine war with the Normans, and on the First Crusade in which Alexius participated. While the Byzantines were allied to the Crusaders, they were nonetheless critical of their behaviour and Anna's book offers a startlingly different perspective to that of Western historians. Her character sketches are shrewd and forthright - from the Norman invader Robert Guiscard ('nourished by manifold evil') and his son Bohemond ('like a streaking thunderbolt') to Pope Gregory VII ('unworthy of a high priest'). The Alexiad is a vivid and dramatic narrative, which reveals as much about the character of its intelligent and dynamic author as it does about the fascinating period through which she lived. - Publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.
Edition:Rev. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxi, 584 pages : : genealogical tables, maps ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780140455274, 0140455272
oclc:ocn312625952
LC Classification:DF605
Dewey Decimal:949.503

Introduction -- Further reading -- Notes on translation and transliteration -- Maps -- The Alexiad -- Byzantine rulers -- Family trees -- Notes -- Glossary.

Subjects

Alexios <Byzantinisches Reich, Kaiser, … Alexios, I., Byzantinisches Reich, Kais… Alexius I. Comnenus, Emperor of the East Byzantijnse rijk Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius … Geschichte History Kreuzzug Kruistochten Midden-Oosten Quelle