The Alexiad (Greek: Ἀλεξιάς, romanized: Alexias) is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess...
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Anna Komnene (section The Alexiad)
was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian. She is the author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos...
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early in the reign of Botaneiates "Alexiad", 2.3.4,2.4.5 Norwich 1995, p. 6 "Alexiad", 2.5.5 "Alexiad", 2.5.6 "Alexiad", 2.5.7–9 Finlay 1854, p. 63 Norwich...
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Anna Comnena. The Alexiad, 4.3. Norwich 1995, p. 18; Anna Comnena. The Alexiad, 4.5. Haldon 2001, p. 134; Anna Comnena. The Alexiad, 4.5. Haldon 2001...
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Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. She wrote a history of the First Crusade in the Alexiad, providing a view of the campaign from the Byzantine perspective. She was...
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Comnena, trans E. R. A. Sewter, The Alexiad, (1969, Penguin), Pp.42. Anna Comnena, trans E. R. A. Sewter, The Alexiad, (1969, Penguin), Pp.43. Choniates...
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Harris 2014, p. 55; Read 2000, p. 124; Watson 1993, p. 12. Komnene 1928, Alexiad 13.348–13.358. Birkenmeier 2002, p. 46. Norwich 1998, p. 267. Ostrogorsky...
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James Howard-Johnston (section Alexiad authorship)
County Council (1973-7, 1981-7). In 1989 Howard-Johnston asserted that The Alexiad of Anna Komnene could not have been written by a "Constantinople-bound...
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1106 – 1142), co-emperor from 1122 to 1142. His birth is recorded in the Alexiad by Anna Komnene. Maria Komnene (b. February 1106, twin to Alexios), who...
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little is known about his life, and that mostly from only one source, the Alexiad of the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos...
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