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	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 Komnene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna Komnene or Comnena (Greek: Άννα Κομνηνή, Anna Komnēnē), (December 1, 1083 – 1153).
		Anna was eventually married, in 1097, an accomplished young nobleman, the kaisar (Caesar) Nikephoros Bryennios, who belonged to one of the aristocratic families that had contested the throne before Alexios' accession.
		Anna employed her leisure in writing the Alexiad--a history in Greek of her father's life and reign (1081–1118), supplementing the historical work of her husband.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_Comnena (551 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 the first female historian presented in Non Famous section
		Anna lived in an era when women chiefly were expected to remain secluded in their quarters attending solely to family matters.
		Anna Comnena wrote about her grandmother, Anna Dalassena: “It may cause some surprise that my father the Emperor had raised his mother to such a position of honor, and that he had handed complete power over to her.
		Anna of Byzantium, Tracy Barrett, Delacorte/Random House, ?
	www.newsfinder.org /comments.php?id=187_0_1_0_M (851 words)

	Two Women
		Anna's father, the Emperor Romanus II, died just two days after her birth, leaving her and her older brothers Basil (5 years) and Constantine (2 years) orphans [9].
		Anna was not simply a bargaining chip in the dealings between Byzantium and Rus'; she helped decide the fate of her adopted homeland.
		Anna's daughter, Mariia, extended the tradition of marriage diplomacy when she became the wife of the Polish king Casimir [22].
	www.uoregon.edu /~kimball/Xtxion.Olga.Anna.htm (2843 words)

	Anna of Byzantium - Definition, explanation
		Anna of Byzantium was a Byzantine noblewoman (+ after 1219), the Princess of Galicia ca 1200 - 1205, and the Grand Princess of Kiev 1203 - 1205.
		The novel places Anna Comnena in the convent where she was exiled by her brother and Byzantine emperor John II after her failed attempt to poison him.
		Anna relates how she was groomed to be the Byzantine empress from birth and how her grandmother, her father Alexius' most trusted advisor, persuaded him to remove Anna from the imperial succession.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/an/anna_of_byzantium.php (365 words)

	Royalty.nu - Eastern Roman Empire - The Byzantine Empire - Emperors of Byzantium
		Byzantium: The Early Centuries by John Julius Norwich, edited by Elizabeth Sifton.
		Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich.
		The Palaiologos dynasty and the decline of Byzantium.
	www.royalty.nu /history/empires/Byzantine (2147 words)

	Amazon.com: Anna of Byzantium: Books: Tracy Barrett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anna herself, with her education in history, classics and science, may reverse any preconceived assumptions about the ignorance and lowly position of women in the Middle Ages, but her character as portrayed here is not likable until the book's conclusion.
		Anna of Byzantium tells the story of the rising and falling fortunes of Anna Comnena, a princess of the Byzantine Empire, and heir to the throne.
		Anna is a strong, often power hungry and conceited character, that remains true to the woman she was based upon.
	www.amazon.com /Anna-Byzantium-Tracy-Barrett/dp/0440415365 (1899 words)

	Anna of Byzantium - From HMaster.com Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anna has two siblings (in real life she had several but they were "cut" for simplicity's sake; the book looses nothing from it), a beautiful, kind, fairly intellegent but generally childish sister and a much younger brother.
		She perfectly showed that Anna Dalassena was the type of person who only though of herself and her bloodline, and anybody not of it was lower in the food chain.
		Anna saw that her Grandmother was indeed a ferocious liar and plain evil.
	www.hmaster.com /project-management-books/0440415365.html (1960 words)

	Byzantium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the area of the Augustaeum, general repairs were undertaken of the colonnades which lined the main street leading from the Augustaeum to the palace of Constantine.
		In the fifty years after the death of Basil II in 1025, the illusion that eternal peace had been achieved encouraged the opportunistic civil aristocracy, which controlled the state, to weaken the army and ignore the provinces.
		Byzantium lost the heart of its empire, and with it the reserves of soldiers, leaders, taxes, and food that had enabled it to survive for the past four centuries.
	www.yasou.org /byzantium/byz.htm (10267 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 of Byzantium
		Anna is the heir to the Byzantium throne, which is quite the tough job for a teenager.
		Anna has two siblings (in real life she had several but they were "cut" for simplicity's sake; the book looses nothing from it), a beautiful, kind, fairly intellegent but generally childish sister and a much younger brother.
		Anna Dalassena told Anna about how to make treaties and break them, how war was a "glorious" thing, and that to conquer all should always be a goal.
	www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Anna_of_Byzantium-0440415365.html (2350 words)

	Medieval Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anna is as dismissive of them as are her father and his most trusted advisor -- his mother, a manipulative woman with whom Anna studies the art of diplomacy.
		Anna relishes her lessons, proving adept at checkmating opponents in swift games of mental chess.
		Almost overnight, Anna sees her dreams of power wrenched from her and bestowed on her little brother.
	www.kdl.org /teens/2005src/medieval.htm (643 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Anna Comnena: The Alexiad
		Inlcudes a French translation of Anna's funeral oration by George Tornikios.
		William of Apulia's Gesta Roberti Wiscardi and Anna Comnena's Alexiad: A Literary Comparison.
		"Anna Comnena's Account of the First Crusade: History and Politics in the Reigns of the Emperors Alexius I and Manuel I Comnenus." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 15 (1991): 269-312.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad.html (2440 words)

	English Education: YA Lit 1999 Honor List
		Barrett is a scholar whose writing of Anna of Byzantium was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
		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.asu.edu /clas/english/englished/yalit/engedya99honorlist.htm (815 words)

	Teachers@Random Catalog \| Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
		Anna is as dismissive of them as are her father and his most trusted adviser--his mother, a manipulative woman with whom Anna studies the art of diplomacy.
		Anna relishes her lessons, proving adept at checkmating opponents in swift moves of mental chess.
		Bitter at the betrayal, Anna waits to avenge herself, and to seize what is rightfully hers.
	www.randomhouse.com /teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0440415365 (239 words)

	Anna of Byzantium
		Ask students to imagine they are slaves to a royal family member other than Anna, but that they are also acting as spies for her.
		Have students imagine that Anna's father, the Emperor Alexius I, was able to communicate his thoughts to her while he lay on his deathbed.
		Have them write a letter from the emperor composed especially for Anna in order to explain why he made the choices he did for the empire and what he hoped for his eldest child's future.
	www.trumpetclub.com /intermediate/activities/anna_of_byzantium.htm (888 words)

	Women's Stories: From the Throne of Byzantium to the Deserts of Pakistan
		Lovely Anna Comnena is born to power, a girl princess who will someday be the Empress of Byzantium.
		For Anna has been carefully taught by her scheming grandmother all that she believes matters most to a ruler: how to take power, how to keep it, and how to ultimately increase it.
		Anna's path from pampered royal to prisoner is filled with pride and treachery.
	www.teenspoint.org /reading_matters/whm.asp (714 words)

	TRACY BARRETT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		AUTHOR OF Tracy Barrett's new novel is based on the life of a twelfth century Byzantine princess.
		Anna Camnena is intelligent, ambitious, the chosen heir and favorite of her father, the emperor.
		But when a brother is born, Anna must seize what is hers.
	www.sokybookfest.org /Bookfest01/writers/barretttbio.htm (54 words)

	Vanderbilt University Daily Register
		Yes, she tells them, she is the same Tracy Barrett who wrote Anna of Byzantium, a book they read in high school.
		In one corner is an illustration of Princess Anna Comnena, the real-life inspiration for Anna of Byzantium.
		A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval women writers led to Barrett’s personal discovery of Princess Anna Comnena (1083-1153), who was the first-born daughter to the emperor of Byzantium and trained to inherit the throne, but was usurped by her brother.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /register/articles?id=23798 (788 words)

	Anna Karenina And Luxury Train Journeys Listings
		32221EN Anna of Byzantium Tracy Barrett 5.3 8.0...
		IN an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare.
		are described in "Anna Karenina" and in the "Landlord's...
	www.luxury-train-travel.co.uk /1/orient-express47.html (425 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantium
		The account of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, by Princess Anna Comnena is perhaps the most important historical work by a woman writer written before the modern period.
		Anna Comnena(1083-after 1148): The Alexiad, Books 10 and 11 (on the Crusades).
		Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook1c.html (3395 words)

	Author writes of Byzantine princess' life
		She continues to study women from the Middle Ages who wrote at a time when education greatly differed for men and women, and outlets for female voices were limited.
		The novel follows Anna Comnena, princess of the Byzantine Empire, through her adolescent struggles to regain the throne once promised her by her royal father, but instead passed on to her younger brother.
		In fact, when Anna's father would leave to oversee political or military affairs, the empire was left in the hands of his mother and an imperial edict would be drawn up to grant her full control over all royal matters.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /News/register/Mar13_00/story12.html (773 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		Fifth Empire, Ottomans, Islamic Byzantium, 1453-1922, 469 years
		The maps are originally those of Tony Belmonte, edited to eliminate references to "Byzantium" and with corrections and additions.
		Al-Harith II himself, with the epithet "ibn Maria" and living in the time of Constantine, may well be the tribal chief who converted to Christianity.
	www.friesian.com /romania.htm (13900 words)

	Medieval Era Fiction for Older Readers
		In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire.
		She fears it will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.
		In 1140, with England divided between the supporters of King Stephen and those of the Empress Matilda, twelve-year-old Will Belet, small for his age but longing to be a knight, comes to his Uncle's castle to be a page and soon finds himself involved in dangerous intrigues and adventures.
	www.madisonpubliclibrary.org /youth/booklists/medieval.html (377 words)

	Anna of Byzantium - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anna is a princess, and hier to the throne.
		The throne gose to her brat brother, and she is kikced out of the palace.
		Bitter at the betrayel, Anna waits for the right moment to get her revenge.
	maxpages.com /enigmambo7/Anna_of_Byzantium - !http://www.maxpages.com/enigmambo7/Anna_of_Byzantium (72 words)

	Tracy Barrett - Anna of Byzantium
		Barrett uses an effective first-person narrative to draw readers into Anna's story, and the author's precise use of detail helps re-create Anna's world, the palace of Constantinople in the ninth century.
		Readers will be caught up in Anna's evolution as she moves from loving child and heir of the emperor to pawn in her grandmother's plan to continue as the power behind the throne to discarded princess, stripped of all she holds dear, especially her future.
		Writing from a remote mountain convent, Anna reflects ruefully on the missteps that led to her exile, and thereby involves readers in a gripping saga of alliances, intrigues, deceits, and treacheries worthy of a place among the tragic myths.
	www.tracybarrett.com /work5.htm (674 words)

	The Horn Book Magazine: Anna of Byzantium.(Review)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Educated, literate, intelligent, she is destined to be the empress of the Byzantine Empire--until a son is born to her father, the emperor, and her own arrogance alienates her manipulative grandmother.
		Consequently, Anna Commena finds her future profoundly altered in a power struggle over the succession.
		Exiled from the court to a distant convent after a failed attempt at fratricide, she finds a way to continue The Alexiad, the eleven-volume epic story of her father's life.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:55579126&refid=ink_tptd_mag (153 words)

	Anna Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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		Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova
		From the moment Anna and Fynn locked eyes, their times together were filled with delight and discovery.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search_2/Anna.html (555 words)

	Princess Anna Comnena
		AncientWorlds > Hellas > Byzantium > Byzantium: Religious and Historical Discussion and Essays > The Women of Byzantium > Princess Anna Comnena
		Thread: The Women of Byzantium In many ways the women of Byzantium played a more prominent (if not more influential) role in Byzantine culture than in other contemporary cultures.
		Here is a place for the study of the women of Byzantium and their particular contributions to the empire.
	www.ancientworlds.net /35501 (156 words)

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