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Showing posts with label Anna Comnena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anna Comnena. Show all posts
30 September 2025

Peter in Jerusalem

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When the main body of the First Crusade reached the Holy Land, Peter the Hermit joined them as a member of the council that made decisions...
31 May 2023

The Alexiad

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Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger (1062 - 1137) was a Byzantine noble. As a general, he defended Constantinople when the army of Godfrey of B...
30 May 2023

Anna Comnena's Rebellion

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Anna Comnena (1083 - 1153) has had her own blog posts before ( here and here ). The daughter of Alexios I Comnenos and Irene Doukaina, she...
29 May 2023

Maria of Alania

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The Unified Kingdom of Georgia in the Middle Ages stretched from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. When it was conquered by the Byzantine Em...
29 April 2016

The Brothers-in-law

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Among the groups in history that have long since disappeared, there are the Pechenegs. They were a semi-nomadic group that spoke a Turkic l...
08 July 2014

Born to the Purple

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Eastern façade of the Boukoleon Palace, facing the Sea. "Born to the purple." You may have heard the phrase before; it denote...
16 January 2014

Princess, not Empress

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[I am on a brief vacation, so here is a post from the past. This post first appeared 2 December 2012.] When Anna Comnena was born in 10...
01 December 2012

A Byzantine Princess

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Anna Comnena in Byzantine mosaic Anna Comnena (1083-1153) was the daughter of an emperor ( Alexios I ), the wife of a Caesar, and the mo...