Penelope Buckley

The Alexiad of Anna Komnene

Artistic Strategy in the Making of a Myth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical appraisal of the literary art of a great Byzantine text by the first woman historian, Anna Komnene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 331
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781107037229
• ISBN-10: 1107037220
• Artikelnr.: 40002957

Autorenporträt

Penelope Buckley is a Fellow of the Melbourne University School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The prologue
1. The Emperor Alexios, my father
2. The soldier-emperor
3. The second story begins
4. West into East
5. The second Norman war and the Crusade
6. The second Constantine and the last
Conclusions
Appendix. The Alexiad as pre-Renaissance text.