de Gruyter Texte: Alexias (Hardcover)

from DinadansFriend

I have a better opinion of this source than Edward Gibbon, who was just not fond of Byzantine Literary culture. Anna was a child of the emperor Alexius Comnenus who re-organized the empire after the disaster at Manzikert. This is also a basic book for the vision of the Western crusaders, and also...

from AlexTheHunn

Primary resource in Byzantine studies. Anna Comnena writes of her father's exploits. She recounts battles and intrigues. She gives Byzantine view of western Christians.

from EricCostello

Anna Comnena's history of the reign of her father, the Emperor Alexius. After a while, the sheer blizzard of invasions, rebellions and betrayals gets to be a trifle overwhelming, and with so many characters changing sides, getting blinded, or whatnot, one can be forgiven, I think, if one is confu...

from paperloverevolution

I enjoyed the undercurrent of gleeful malice and all of the lurid eye-gouging, but I didn't understand why everyone seemed to have the same name, why they had all married each other's cousins, and why they all wanted to kill each other. The footnotes assumed I'd need help figuring out who the Gor...

from Poleaxe

Wow. Where to begin with this book? After reading numerous pieces on the Crusades, I noticed that one was invariably reading quotes from the same chronicles over and over again. I took it upon myself to try and read as many of these chronicles as I could. Pieces such as [The Itinerarium Perigrino...