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Major worksAlexiad
The Byzantine princess and scholar whose Alexiad chronicled the reign of her father, the emperor Alexios I, making her one of the first known female historians. Learned, proud, and vivid in her storytelling, she left an invaluable account of the Byzantine world at the time of the First Crusade, seen from the heart of the imperial court.
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