Our best primary source for Alexios Komnenos reign is The Alexiad written by his daughter Anna Komnene. I talk to Professor Leonora Neville about Anna's life and writing and how she overcame the obstacles facing a woman trying to write history.
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Episode 158 - The Legend Slayer
Update on schedule and Istanbul
Episode 157 - The Culmination
Episode 156 - The Half Blind Leading the Blind
Episode 155 - The Year 1000
Episode 154 - A Cat Among Mice
Episode 153 - Basil II
Episode 152 - Bardas Phokas
Episode 151 - Bardas Sclerus
Podcasting in Istanbul?
Episode 150 - Basil Lekapenos
Episode 149 - Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
Episode 148 - Sources and Magnates
Episode 147 - Bulgarian Solidarity
Episode 146 - What's the Plan?
Episode 145 - The Eastern Conquests
Episode 144 - Setting the Table
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Episode 143 - Strange Trajectories
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