Anna's intrusions, defending her role as a historian and lamenting about how unfortunate she was, creates an image of herself as an admirable historian and dutiful daughter. Sewter's revised edition of The Alexiad places Anna within the tradition of the Byzantine Historiography to demonstrate effectively her emulation of her predecessors, subjects and her innovations. This draws from a cultural, intellectual development, which arose during the period referred to as the Byzantine humanism (Comnena
The Alexiad, written by Anna Comena is a vivid description of her father Emperor Alexis Comenna I and his rule and events associated with him from 1081–1118. The book is a chronicle as it a historical account of her father and his rule, however it is incredibly bias but can be used by historians to understand the Byzantine perspective on many events during Alexis’s rule. In the book Anna outlines her father’s life before he is emperor in book one, which talks about his early years as a solider in
In the Deeds of the Franks and the Alexiad, the ideal qualities of a leader during the late 1000’s to early 1100’s differ from the Franks and the Byzantines when it comes to qualities, during the Latin Christian World in 1096 to 1099, expressed devotion and quality management is what helps them become good leaders and warriors. The difference that can be seen in the Byzantine empire is how they expressed great confidence, inspired others, and were disciplined. Both sources explain the Latin Christian
Aligning with Anna Comnena’s overall bias, the details in The Alexiad harbor a great deal of disdain for crusaders. The East versus West mentality is evident in the narrative through Comnena’s description of the Crusaders. She uses the names “Celt” and “Norman()” as derogatory describing the Crusaders as uncultured and “riotous().” With Byzantine bias she singles out the Normans especially with respect to Nicea where they “behaved the most cruelly to all (251).” Alexius, himself is written to fear
crusades. Anna Comnena, the daughter of Byzantine emperor Alexius I, also wrote a comprehensive account of the Crusades, but from the Hellenic point of view of an Eastern Christian. Comnena was a princess as well as a scholar, and she wrote The Alexiad, a retelling of her father’s period of influence, which contains much insight on the First Crusade. Alexius I inherited the Byzantine Empire in shambles, and was faced with continuous conflict throughout his time in power against both the Seljuk Turks
collection of primary sources. His use of primary sources is seen throughout the text to either provide detailed explanations or meaningful narratives to the material from the secondary sources. Finucane’s uses of passages from Anna Comnena’s The Alexiad provides some of the most detailed accounts in various chapters that many may not expect from the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor, Alexius I Comnenus, yet general readers may not know that she was also a scholar and a historian. In the Chapter 4
The Crusades In the early medieval period, the Seljuk Turks were the dominant power in the Middle East. Their influence and empire spread like fire, spreading from India to eastern Anatolia. When the Turks reached the Byzantine Empire, trouble began to spew. The Byzantine Emperor Alexius I asked Pope Urban II for assistance in raising an army, but the Pope had plans to not only defend Byzantine, but reclaim lands captured by Muslims centuries before. What followed were a series of wars from 1096
Empire only wanted to maintain its kingdom while the crusaders wanted to go on a pilgrimage and to enjoy killing. When the crusaders and the Byzantine Empire first came to connect, they created a lot of conflicts. According to the primary sources, Alexiad, Gesta Francorum, and Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere, both sides had four different conflicts. Although they tried to make a compromise, at the end, because of so much distrust between them, the crusaders broke away from the Byzantine Empire
Analysis of the Gospel of John 1:1-6 and its comparison with Genesis 1 and 2: 1-3 and Proverbs 8 gives us insight into how a Christian text references Hebrew texts implicitly and explicitly. In chapter one, verse 1-6, of the Gospel of John, we not only witness the explicit references from Genesis and Proverbs, but also see how different ideas present in the two Hebrew texts have been reframed by the Gospel of John. We see a highlight of this reframing in the verse one of the Gospel of John, which
The First Crusade was called in 1096 by Pope Urban II. The reasons for the First Crusade was to help obtain Jerusalem known as the holy land. During this time period the Muslims were occupying Jerusalem. First Crusade contained peasants and knights’ whose ethnicities consist of Franks, Latin’s, and Celts which were all from the western part of Europe. To get peasants and knights to join Pope Urban II objectives in return of a spiritual reward called “remission of all their sins” which was to be redeemed
Among some of the largest conflicts in the world stand the Crusades; a brutal conflict that lasted over 200 years and was debatably one of the largest armed religious conflicts in the history of humankind. Since this is so clearly an event of importance, historians have searched vigorously for the true answer as to why the crusades began. Ultimately, because of accusatory views on both the sides of the Christians and of the Muslims, the two groups grew in such hatred of each other that they began