Alexiad

Such are the "Alexiad", the pedantic work of the Princess Anna Comnena (a glorification of her father Alexius, and of the reorganization of the empire set afoot by him), the historical work of her husband,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Alexiad presents him as an extremely erudite scholar both of religious and of secular literature as well as a master of dialectic.

Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

Alexiad — certainly, with all its defects, the first historical work that has as yet proceeded from a female pen.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

She appears to have written the Alexiad in a convent; and to have spent nearly thirty years in this retirement, before her book was published.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

The Alexiad, a long panegyric on her father's reign, is a major historical source for the period.

1083-1153/54 2001

Anna Comnenus, eldest daughter of Alexius I, a patron of scholarship, and, with the production of the Alexiad, an able scholar in her own right.

1083-1153/54 2001

The pilgrimage of Peter is mentioned by Anna Comnena (Alexiad, X, 8), who, born in 1083, could know nothing of this story except through tradition; she relates, however, that he could not get as far as

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

_Alexiad_ of Anna Comnena [181] in history, or the verse romances of

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

WOMAN, in the fifteen books of her Alexiad, which she wrote upon the deeds of her father, displayed equally her eloquence and her learning.

Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799

WOMAN, in the fifteen books of her Alexiad, which she wrote upon the deeds of her father, displayed equally her eloquence and her learning.

Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799