Anna Komnene : the life and work of a medieval historian /
The authorial persona constructed by Anna Komnene in her Alexiad (a history of her father the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios Komnenos, 1081–1118) responded to the challenges Byzantine culture created for female historical authorship. Fundamental cultural conceptions of masculinity, femininity, authority...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I.A good historian and a good woman
- Why didn't Greek women write history?
- Qualified, and modest about it
- Unbiased historian & devoted daughter
- Crying like a woman and writing like a man
- Gathering research without leaving the house
- Part II. A power-hungry conspirator?
- Death-bed dramas
- Celebrating an odd bird
- A room of one's own
- Ambition & brotherly love
- The "fury of a Medea."