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Subject(s)

• Princesses—Byzantine Empire—Biography [Browse]
• Middle Ages—Historiography [Browse]
• Byzantine Empire—History—Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118 [Browse]
• Comnena, Anna 1083- [Browse]
• Comnena, Anna 1083-—Alexiad [Browse]

Related name

• Taylor & Francis [Browse]

Editor

• Gouma-Peterson, Thalia [Browse]

Series

• Garland reference library of the humanities. Garland medieval casebooks [More in this series]
• Garland medieval casebooks

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 30, 2020).

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.

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ISBN

• 9781134829507 ((electronic book))
• 1134829507 ((electronic book))
• 9780203765234 ((electronic book))
• 0203765230 ((electronic book))
• 1306825520 ((electronic book))
• 9781306825528 ((electronic book))

OCLC

881325334

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