Anna Komnene: The Life And Work Of A Medieval Historian (Onassis Series In Hellenic Culture) - 9780190498177

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for writing history and plotting to become empress by murdering her brother. This book explains how Anna broke her culture's rules for women's behavior by writing history, her efforts to be acceptable, and how her writing nonetheless fired the story of her bloodthirsty ambition.

• | Author: Leonora Alice Neville
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 257 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 019049817X
• | ISBN-13: 9780190498177