The Alexiad of Anna Comnena by E.R.A. Sewter, Anna Comnena

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

E.R.A. Sewter, Anna Comnena

560 pages first pub 1148 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Edward Gibbon wrote of the Alexiad that it ‘betrays in every page the vanity of a female author.’ Modern critics disagree: Ostrogorsky refers to it as a ‘historical source of first importance’ and Hussey calls it a ‘mature and markedly individual’...

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