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Subject(s)

• Comnena, Anna 1083-—Alexiad [Browse]
• Comnena, Anna 1083-—Alexiad—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Historians—Byzantine Empire [Browse]
• Byzantine Empire—Historiography [Browse]

Series

• Central European medieval studies ; 5. [More in this series]
• Central European medieval studies ; 5 [More in this series]

Summary note

The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offering accounts of its political and military history, including its involvement with the First Crusade. This book introduces new methods of research for studying the Alexiad, aiming primarily at analysing Anna Komnene's literary expression. The book's approach focuses mainly on the author, the subject, the structure and the inner stylistic features, as well as the genre itself. The result is a substantially new outlook on the main Byzantine historiographical work of the twelfth century.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (page 343-352) and index.

Contents

• Technē historikē
• Image of the ideal ruler
• Anna Komnene's Periautologia
• The pain of Niobe and cry of Electra
• Doukai : construction of an alternative political discourse
• Komnenian Philia.

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ISBN

• 9789462980389 (hardcover)
• 9462980381 (hardcover)

OCLC

1019660499

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