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 120 - The Magnates
Episode 119 - Follow the Money
Episode 118 - Revival
Episode 117 - Questions IV
Episode 116 - North of the Danube
Episode 115 - The Rise of Bulgaria
Episode 114 - International Relations
Episode 113 - Carolingian Decline
Episode 112 - The Frontier
Episode 111 - Abbasid Decline
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Episode 109 - Leo the Wise?
Episode 108 - Known Unknowns
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