Anna Komnene : the life and work of a medieval historian /

• Main Author: Neville, Leonora Alice, 1970- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Series: Onassis series in Hellenic culture
• Subjects: Άννα Κομνηνή, > γ. 1083; Ιστορικοί, Βυζαντινοί > > Βιογραφία; Πριγκίπισσες > Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία > Βιογραφία; Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία > Ιστορία > Δυναστεία Κομνηνών, 1081-1185

Table of Contents:

• Part I. A good historian and a good woman
• Why didn't Greek women write history?
• Qualified, and modest about it
• Unbiased historian and devoted daughter
• Crying like a woman and writing like a man
• Gathering research without leaving the house
• Part II. A power-hungry conspirator?
• Deathbed dramas
• Celebrating an odd bird
• A room of one's own
• Ambition and brotherly love
• The "fury of Medea".