Leonora Neville: 3 books
by Leonora Neville
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histories that continued ancient Greek traditions of historiography, sweeping, fast-paced 'chronicle' type histories, and dozens of idiosyncratic historical...
Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the passive and unambitious husband of Princess Anna Komnene (author of the Alexiad), Bryennios is revealed...
Anna Komnene
The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First Crusade. Anna Komnene: the Life and Work of a...