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.
A critical appraisal of the literary art of a great Byzantine text by the first woman historian, Anna Komnene.
Penelope Buckley is a Fellow of the Melbourne University School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.
'… an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship on this twelfth-century epic, providing important analysis of Anna's work as a piece of literature. Buckley's achievement is to produce a thought-provoking and well-written literary analysis that will surely stimulate further debate on how modern scholars view Anna as an author.' Elisabeth Mincin, Reviews in History
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