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	Anna Comnena - LoveToKnow 1911
		ANNA' 'COMNENA, daughter of the emperor Alexius I. Comnenus, the first woman historian, was born on the 1st of December 1083.
		A determined opponent of the Latin church and an enthusiastic admirer of the Byzantine empire, Anna Comnena regards the Crusades as a danger both political and religious.
		Her models are Thucydides, Polybius and Xenophon, and her style exhibits the striving after Atticism characteristic of the period, with the result that the language is highly artificial.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Anna_Comnena (324 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topic 3: Texts and Contexts
		Anna Comnena's biography of her father the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus (reigned 1081–1118) is an important historical and literary document of the period that includes the First Crusade.
		I, Anna, daughter of the Emperor Alexius and the Empress Irene, born and bred in the Purple,
		Anna Comnena provides portraits of the Crusaders, whom she refers to disparagingly as "Latins," "Kelts," "Franks," and "barbarians" (the Greek word for all non-Greek speakers but with its modern connotations).
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/nael/middleages/topic_3/comnena.htm (3326 words)

	Female Hero: Anna Comnena (Women in World History Curriculum)
		Anna Comnena is considered the world's first female historian and a major source of information about the reign of her father, Alexius I. Her works are full of details about daily life at court, the deeds of her family, and the exchanges between the Byzantines and western crusaders during the first crusades.
		Anna married an historian in 1097, and, with her mother's encouragement, tried to seize the imperial throne for him.
		Anna lived in an era when women chiefly were expected to remain secluded in their quarters (called gyneceum) attending solely to family matters.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /heroine5.html (510 words)

	Anna Comnena - Encyclopedia.com
		Covering the reign of Alexius I and the First Crusade, it tends to glorify her father and his family; however, Anna's familiarity with public affairs and her access to the imperial archives give her work great value.
		I was Anna Comnena, heir to the royal city of Byzantium, already in my 10th year.
		Anna Of Brunswick's siblings include Group 3 mile-and-a-half winner Anno Luce, Anna Comnena, dam of the smart Sadlers...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-AnnaComn.html (788 words)

	Anna Comnena: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		In the twelfth century Anna Comnena uses horos, horion and horismos...biography produced by Alexius daughter Anna.
		Anna Comnena and Arab chroniclers exclaim over...them-impressive physical size of the Latins, Anna representing the Norman leader...native populations of the region.
		Indeed, the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena described him during the 12th century as "the greatest saint in the hierarchy".
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101229304 (1120 words)

	Rebecca Johnson's "Anna Komnene"
		Anna Komnene is the daughter and oldest child of Alexios, Emporer of the Byzantine Empire in the late 11th century.
		In this respect, Anna is a sterling example of a feminist; she led a revolt against her brother, although she was a devout Christian, went against the Church by studying the sexual content of Aristotle and Plato.
		Anna Komnene's life was in fact ruled by the fact that she was born female instead of male, oldest child, but not oldest son.
	www.angelfire.com /grrl/rebj/anna_komnene.html (1618 words)

	Anna Comnena Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Anna Comnena was the oldest daughter of the emperor Alexius I, a member of the military aristocracy who seized Constantinople and the throne in 1081, and Irene Ducas.
		Comnena was born in the room reserved for imperial infants and entered the world as heiress to the throne.
		Comnena took her place beside Maria, the mother of Constantine Ducas, and Anna Dalassena, the Emperor's forceful mother, as a member of the circle that exerted extraordinary influence.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/anna-comnena (609 words)

	Anna Komnene (Site not responding. Last check: )
		'Anna Komnene' or Comnena (Greek: Άννα Κομνηνή, Anna Komnēnē; December 1, 1083 – 1153) was a Byzantine princess and scholar, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.
		Anna was born in the purple chamber of the imperial palace of Constantinople.
		Enraged and disappointed with her husband's weakness, Anna said that "nature had mistaken their sexes, for he ought to have been the woman." The plot was discovered, and Anna had to forfeit her property and imperial family status and was forced into exile to the convent of Kecharitomene, which her mother had founded.
	nba.servegame.org /en/Anna_Comnena.htm (1159 words)

	Irene Ducaena
		Irene was born in 1066 to Andronicus Ducas and Maria of Bulgaria (grandaughter of Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria).
		Alexius' mother, Anna Dalassena, a lifelong enemy of the Ducas family, pressured her son to divorce the young Irene and marry Maria Bagrationi, the former wife of both Michael VII and Nicephorus III.
		Anna continued to live in the imperial palace and meddle in Alexius' affairs until her death 20 years later; Maria Bagrationi may have also lived in the palace, and there were rumours that Alexius carried on an affair with her.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Medieval/Bio/IreneDucaena.html (805 words)

	Anna Comnena
		Anna Comnena (December 1 1083 - 1153) was a daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus, and is the first female historian.
		A fictional account of Anna Comnena's life is given in the 1999 novel Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett.
		Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/an/anna_comnena.html (397 words)

	Anna Comnena: The Alexiad (c. 1148 CE)
		The emperor's daughter Anna, in her history of Alexius' reign, disdainfully depicts the crusaders as violent, ignorant boors.
		It is difficult to know what caused Anna to judge the Muslims as drunkards, for Islam strictly forbids its followers to drink wine.
		(9) Anna wrongly assumes that all of the crusaders crossed over from Italy, probably because the first to arrive came from that direction.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/comnena.html (1635 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Mary of Alania
		Anna explains Maria's support of the revolt of the Comneni against her husband as a consequence of her son's demotion: Anna states that if Botaniates had left the throne to Constantine 'he would have ensured his own safety to the end...
		Anna records the rumour that Maria was aware of his mission, suggesting that some of the emperor's closest advisers were working in her interests and against those of the emperor and that Maria herself played a pivotal part in the plot against her second husband.
		Anna states that, when Diogenes was arrested, documents were found on him which made it clear that Maria knew of the conspiracy, though (according to Anna) she disapproved of the plan to murder Alexius and was trying to dissuade Diogenes from it.
	www.roman-emperors.org /maryal.htm (8454 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 514 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		118.) [W., NICE'PHORUS (Nt/o^rfpos Bpuej/i/ios), the accomplished husband of Anna Comnena, was born at Orestias in Macedonia in the middle of the eleventh century of the Christian aera.
		Anna Comnena and the empress Irene tried to persuade the emperor to name Bryennius his successor; but Alexis would not deprive his son John of his natural rights.
		[anna comnena.] The cause of its failure was the refusal of Bryennius to act in the decisive moment, for which ho was severely blamed by his haughty wife.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0523.html (1118 words)

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		Anna Comnena appears to have considered it her duty to take up the task which her husband had not lived to complete; and hence the Alexiad--certainly, with all its defects, the first historical work that has as yet proceeded from a female pen.
		Anna is a faithful witness that his happiness was destroyed and his health broken by the cares of a public life; the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love and reverence of his subjects.
		Anna Comnena was stimulated by ambition and revenge to conspire against the life of her brother; and when the design was prevented by the fears or scruples of her husband, she passionately exclaimed that nature had mistaken the two sexes, and had endowed Bryennius with the soul of a woman.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/wvr1210.txt (10473 words)

	comnena (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anna Comnena (1083-1155?) was the daughter of Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium, and Irene Ducas, daughter of Maria of Bulgaria.
		Anna’s education was in the hands of her mother and father.
		Anna provides us with an account of the flood of people of the First Crusade from the point of view of the Byzantine population as they pass through on their way to Jerusalem.
	www.humanistictexts.org /comnena.htm (7960 words)

	Review: Anna of Byzantium
		Anna Comnena, eldest child of the Byzantine emperor, is spoiled, arrogant, ambitious, and manipulative; she learns statecraft from her like-minded grandmother, but when she refuses to be the older woman's puppet she is thrust aside in favor of her horrid younger brother John.
		I've read some complaints that Anna is unlikable, too much so for a protagonist, but when we see her upbringing in a hotbed of deceit and intrigue, one can hardly blame her.
		And though Anna is arrogant and ambitious, she is also strong and intelligent, and when her mind can be turned away from the injustices done to her, she is industrious about learning history and astronomy.
	www.angelfire.com /space/astralland/bk14.htm (313 words)

	Anna Comnena
		Anna Comnena (Komnene is the Greek for the family name, Komnena its feminine form) was born two years after her father, Alexius, had made himself, not very legitimately, Roman emperor at Constantinople.
		The Alexiad of the Princess Anna Comnena: being the history of the reign of her father, Alexius I, Emperor of the Romans, 1081-1118 A.D.; translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes.
		Stephenson sees Anna's choices of what to include and to omit as reflecting her disapproval of her nephew, Emperor Manuel I, and his handling of the Second Crusade, as well as of those writers who were praising Manuel at the expense of his grandfather Alexius.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/comnena.html (3086 words)

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		Anna Comnena, Daughter of Alexius Comnenus and one of the chroniclers of the First Crusade, was fascinated by him.
		She dedicates her novel to the “forgotten women writers” of the Middle Ages, who like Anna Comnena were actually as literate as were the men in comparable social positions.
		Princess Anna is the true-life author of The Alexiad, an 11-volume story of her father’s reign over the Byzantine Empire centered in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from 1083 to 1118.
	www.lycos.com /info/anna-comnena.html (533 words)

	BiblioTravel: Anna of Byzantium
		Anna of Byzantium is an interesting historical novel intended for young adult readers.
		It's told in the first person, from the point of view of Anna Comnena, a Byzantine princess who tried to maintain her place in line for the throne at a time when influences in the empire were trying to put her younger brother on the throne.
		The story is told from a convent, where Anna lived out her long life after being exiled from court.
	www.bibliotravel.com /books.php?book=1071 (145 words)

	Anna Comnena
		Anna Comnena is commonly regarded as the world’s first female historian.
		In 1097, Anna married Nicephorus Bryennius, a historian.
		Anna Comnena rose above the stereotypes of her time and became a distinguished woman in an era when women were required to cover their faces with veils and were not allowed to appear in public processions.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2comnenaanna.htm (401 words)

	Encyclopedie :: Anna Comnena (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anna Comnena werd geboren in het keizerlijk paleis te Constantinopel en kreeg, zoals het een Byzantijnse prinses paste, een verzorgde opleiding in de Griekse klassieke literatuur, geschiedenis, mythologie en wijsbegeerte.
		Anna was zelf ontroostbaar na de dood van haar vader, maar toch probeerde zij steeds voor haar moeder een steun en toeverlaat te blijven.
		Anna Comnena (1083–?1148), historian, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, Comnenus.
	www.encyclopedie.ws /Anna_Comnena (774 words)

	The Byzantine background to the First Crusade, by Paul Magdalino
		Anna Comnena's hindsight has been noted but its full significance has yet to be investigated.
		Anna Conmena says that he betrayed imperial interests, but his delinquency cannot have been too serious, since he subsequently returned to Constantinople to take up an important teaching position, succeeding Michael Psellos as "consul of the philosophers".
		But this is where we must be particularly careful of assuming that Anna Comnena is representative of her father's attitudes in the 1090s.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/magdalino.htm (12964 words)

	Amazon.com: The Alexiad of Anna Comnena (The Penguin Classics): Books: Anna Comnena,E. R. A. Sewter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anna Komnena is certainly prey to the prejudices of her rank and station in the Byzantine Empire, and her account is clearly intended as an elegy and panygeric to her adored father - the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
		Written by Anna Comnena, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I (1083-1153), this is the recollections by the princess of the Crusades as it occurred in her father's court during his reign.
		Anna Comnena, daughter of the Emperor Alexius I, recalls in her old age the days of her father.
	www.amazon.com /Alexiad-Anna-Comnena-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140442154 (1959 words)

	Feature Articles
		Nicephorus Bryennius and Anna Comnena: The "Roman" Xenophon and Thucydides of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Constantinople
		dynasty, the Caesar Nicephorus Bryennius, Alexius' son-in-law, and Anna Comnena, the daughter of Alexius and the widow of Bryennius.
		Anna, likewise, compares her father Alexius to the two great Scipios, the elder Africanus and Aemilianus.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /comnena.html (2995 words)

	BCCB-Big Picture, July, 1999
		Anna Dalassena, who was responsible for putting her warrior son Alexius on the throne, is his most trusted advisor and de facto regent in his absence.
		She recognizes Anna Comnena's aptitude for statesmanship and begins to instruct her granddaughter in her own style of ruthless politicking, certain that she will be able to control the next empress as handily as she controls her son.
		Anna Comnena comes of age amid these rivalries, freely turning to her grandmother for instruction, ignoring the more temperate messages of her mother and the family's tutor Simon, and underestimating the cunning of brother John.
	bccb.lis.uiuc.edu /0799big.html (641 words)

	Anna Comnena
		Anna Comnena's Hauptwerk ist die in griechischer Sprache geschriebene Alexiade, eine aus 15 Büchern bestehende Geschichte der Regierung ihres Vaters mit dem Titel Annae Comnenae Alexiadis Libri.
		Ein Mitglied des Kreises um Anna Comnena war der neuplatonische Kommentator der Nikomachischen Ethik, Euratius aus Nicea, den sie in der Alexiade erwähnt, weil er Alexis mit seinen Argumenten gegen die Manchiäer aus Philoppopolis unterstützt haben soll.
		Anna Comnena hatte auch religiöse Interessen und unterstützte den christlichen Aristotelismus, der auch neuplatonische Züge hatte.
	www.philosophenlexikon.de /comnena.htm (267 words)

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