Anna Komnene and Her Times
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Anna Komnene and Her Times

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Anna Komnene and Her Times

About this book

This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anna Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781134829576
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
History

Index

  • Akathistos Hymnos129
  • Alexiad
    • authorship of, debate on63–75, 97–101
    • compared to other works170, 176
    • criticism of169
    • epic form of writing67–69, 174–175
    • historical personalities/style, use of176–179
    • Homer, influence of171–172, 174, 175, 180
    • images in170–171
    • inconsistencies in74
    • language of170
    • mimesis175–176
    • Psellos, influence of170, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181
    • Psellos’ Chronographia, compared to176, 180
    • reasons for writing5–6, 21–23, 47
    • sculptural style178–179
    • as a secular biography172
    • as a story173–174
    • uniformity in169, 170–171
    • writing style used6–13, 178–179
  • Alexios I2, 3
    • as author of Mousai18
    • background of9–10
    • Bohemond, relationship with25, 26, 160
    • crusading leaders, relationships with26–28
    • exploitation of the memory of, by his heirs17–20
    • physical description8
    • trickery used by158–160
    • use of women by53
  • Amaseia, trickery at159
  • Ancestry, importance of11
  • Andronikos18, 29, 125
  • Anemas, Michael28, 52–53, 177
  • Angold, M...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Other Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Bibliographic Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: Why Anna Komnene?
  11. The Pen of the Aunt: Echoes of the Mid–Twelfth Century in the Alexiad
  12. Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Anna Komnene's Attempted Usurpation
  13. The Pen and the Sword: Who Wrote the Alexiad?
  14. Women's Literature in Byzantium?—The Case of Anna Komnene
  15. Gender and Power: Passages to the Maternal in Anna Komnene's Alexiad
  16. Anna Komnene, Learned Women, and the Book in Byzantine Art
  17. Bohemond and the Rooster: Byzantines, Normans, and the Artful Ruse
  18. Why Is the Alexiad a Masterpiece of Byzantine Literature?
  19. Contributors
  20. Index

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