Daily Medieval

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

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...

Alexios I Comnenos might not have made it to the position of Byzantine emperor if not for the behind-the-scene actions of his mother, Anna D...

"Behind every great man is a woman" was never more apt than in the case of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Comnenos  and his mothe...

Alexios I Comnenos (1057 - 1118) was the Byzantine emperor during the start of the Crusades. Since the Byzantines were a part of the old Rom...