The Alexiad - Brossura

Komnene, Anna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140455272 ISBN 13: 9780140455274

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2009

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The Alexiad, 9780140455274

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Anna Komnene (1083–1153) was the oldest child of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. She was engaged as a young girl to Constantine Doukas, son of the deposed Emperor Michael VII Douglas, but for reasons which are unclear, the marriage did not take place, and she instead married Nikephorous Bryennios, a member of a prominent aristocratic family from the western part of the empire. Both Anna and her husband became increasingly visible at Alexios' court in the latter part of his reign, and on his death, actively considered taking the throne at the expense of her younger brother, John II Komnenos. Anna suffered internal exile as a result in a lavishly endowed convent.

E. R. A. Sewter (translator; 1907–1976) was a well-known Byzantine scholar and the editor of Greece and Rome. 

Peter Frankopan (editor/introducer) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silk Roads, The New Silk Roads, and The First Crusade. He lives in Oxford, England, where he is a professor of global history at Oxford University.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140455272
• ISBN 13: 9780140455274
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 608
• Redattore: Frankopan Peter
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