Leonora Neville

Gebundenes Buch

Anna Komnene

The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Leonora Neville is the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author most recently of Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780190498177
• ISBN-10: 019049817X
• Artikelnr.: 47868856