The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

by Comnena, Anna; Sewter, E. R. A.; Sewter, E. R. A.

• ISBN13: 9780140442151
• ISBN10: 0140442154
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-12-20
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface	7	(4)
Introduction	11	(6)
Preface	17	(7)
Map of Constantinople	24	(2)
Map of the Balkans	26	(2)
Map of Asia Minor	28	(3)
THE ALEXIAD
Anna's Preface - From the Boyhood of Alexius to the last months of Botaniates' Reign	31	(42)
The Revolt of the Comneni	73	(30)
The Accession of Alexius and the Struggle between the Ducas and Comnenus families	103	(32)
War with the Normans (1081-2)	135	(20)
War with the Normans (1082-3) and Alexius' first Contest with the Heretics	155	(26)
Norman Defeat and the Death of Robert Guiscard - The Turks	181	(36)
War with the Scyths (1087-90)	217	(30)
The Scythian War (1091) - Victory at Levunium (29 April 1091) - Plots against the Emperor	247	(22)
The Turkish War and a Dalmatian Interlude (1092-4) - The Conspiracy of Nicephorus Diogenes (1094)	269	(24)
Another Heresy - The Cuman War - The First Crusade (1094-7)	293	(40)
The First Crusade (1097-1104)	333	(36)
Domestic Troubles - Second Norman Invasion (1105-7)	369	(26)
The Conspiracy of Aaron - The Final Defeat of Bohemond - The Treaty of Devol (1107-8)	395	(40)
Turks, Franks, Cumans and Manichaeans (1108-15)	435	(36)
Victory over the Turks - The Orphanage - Heresy of the Bogomils - Illness and Death of Alexius (1116-18)	471	(46)
Appendix I: Greek Fire	517	(1)
Appendix II: The Byzantine Navy	518	(1)
Appendix III: Titles	519	(1)
Lists of Byzantine Rulers, Popes of Rome, Patriarchs of Constantinople	520	(2)
The House of Ducas	522	(1)
The House of Comnenus	523	(1)
Bibliography	524	(2)
Glossary	526	(2)
Index of Events	528	(10)
Index of Names	538