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Anna Comnena (Paperback)
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Anna Comnena (Paperback)
Series: The Naomi Mitchison Library, 18
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Anna Comnena is described as the first female historian, the author
of her father's celebratory biography. She was an educated princess
in eleventh-century Constantinople, the daughter of the Emperor
Alexius. She was expected to succeed him, and raised as heir, but
her hopes were dashed by the birth of a younger brother. In what is
over-modestly described as a biography, Naomi Mitchison combines
her story with that of her father, and the whole civilisation of
the Eastern Empire, indeed the whole known world of the time. The
Eastern Empire is seen as a necessary bulwark between a young and
promising Europe and the perils of Islam and wild tribes in Asia.
Mitchison also warns her readership of the perils of a dead
civilisation, and writing in 1928 she poses a challenge to the
direction of Europe in these perilous postwar years. Thwarted
ambition at last drove Anna to attempt to kill her brother, who,
says Mitchison, went on to be one of the best of Emperors. Isobel
Murray is Emeritus Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the
University of Aberdeen.
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