Structure and Features of Anna Komnene’s Alexiad
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First Crusade context
gender in historical writing
historical context
imperial ideology studies
Komnenian dynasty personal narrative
komnenoi
literary poetics Byzantium
medieval narrative analysis
narrative
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- ISBN 9781041186687
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offering accounts of its political and military history, including its involvement with the First Crusade. Structure and Features of Anna Komnene's Alexiad: Emergence of a Personal History introduces new methods of research for studying the Alexiad, aiming primarily at analysing Anna Komnene's literary expression. The book's approach focuses mainly on the author, the subject, the structure and the inner stylistic features, as well as the genre itself. The result is a substantially new outlook on the main Byzantine historiographical work of the twelfth century.
Larisa Orlov Vilimonovic is Research Associate in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, at the University of Belgrade. She has taught courses in Byzantine cultural and social history. Her main interests are Byzantine literature, rhetoric and gender studies.
