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Anna Comnena dictating the 'Alexiad', illustration from 'Hutchinson's History of the Nations', 1915 (litho)

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Anna Comnena dictating the 'Alexiad', illustration from 'Hutchinson's History of the Nations', 1915 (litho)
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Bagdatopoulos, William Spencer (1888-1965) / Greek
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lithograph
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at the death of her father, Emperor Alexius I (1048-1118), Anna Comnena (1083-1153) attempted to seize the throne, ousting her brother Johannes II; instead of punishing her he sent her to a convent, where she wrote a history of her father, the 'Alexiad'; it is almost the only historical work composed by a woman until modern times;

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12th century / female / historian / byzantine academic / middle ages / medieval / gesture / dictation / tolerance / scroll / portrait / pointing / writing / nun / scribe / literature / byzantium / Engraving / Mzengraving
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