Leonora Neville

Anna Komnene

The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780190939892
• ISBN-10: 0190939893
• Artikelnr.: 53847226

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: A Good Historian and a Good Woman
1 Why didn't Greek Women write history?
2 Qualified, and Modest about It
3 Unbiased Historian and Devoted Daughter
4 Crying like a Woman and Writing like a Man
5 Gathering Research without Leaving the House
Part II A Power-Hungry Conspirator?
6 Death-Bed Dramas
7 Celebrating an Odd Bird
8 A Room of One's Own
9 Ambition and Brotherly Love
10 The "Fury of a Medea"
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Bibliography