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560 pages • first pub 1148 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0140442154
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Edward Gibbon wrote of the Alexiad that it ‘betrays in every page the vanity of a female author.’ Modern critics disagree: Ostrogorsky refers to it as a ‘historical source of first importance’ and Hussey calls it a ‘mature and markedly individual’...
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560 pages • first pub 1148 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0140442154
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Edward Gibbon wrote of the Alexiad that it ‘betrays in every page the vanity of a female author.’ Modern critics disagree: Ostrogorsky refers to it as a ‘historical source of first importance’ and Hussey calls it a ‘mature and markedly individual’...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings