Leonora Neville is the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author most recently of Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium.

So deeply ingrained is the narrative of Anna's treason that, although it hangs by the slenderest thread, no Byzantinist until now has dared to challenge it. In her courageous revisionist history, Leonora Neville finally does so. A princess who presumed to write military history, Anna has long remained a baffling, anomalous figure. It is only now that her valour, as well as her vulnerability, comes into clear focus.

• ContentsAbbreviations Introduction Part I: A Good Historian and a Good Woman 1 Why didn't Greek Women write history? 2 Qualified, and Modest about It3 Unbiased Historian & Devoted Daughter4 Crying like a Woman and Writing like a Man5 Gathering Research without Leaving the HousePart II A Power-Hungry Conspirator? 6 Death-Bed Dramas7 Celebrating an Odd Bird8 A Room of One's Own9 Ambition & Brotherly Love10 The "Fury of a Medea" ConclusionsAcknowledgements Bibliography

Leonora Neville is the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author most recently of Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium.

So deeply ingrained is the narrative of Anna's treason that, although it hangs by the slenderest thread, no Byzantinist until now has dared to challenge it. In her courageous revisionist history, Leonora Neville finally does so. A princess who presumed to write military history, Anna has long remained a baffling, anomalous figure. It is only now that her valour, as well as her vulnerability, comes into clear focus.

• ContentsAbbreviations Introduction Part I: A Good Historian and a Good Woman 1 Why didn't Greek Women write history? 2 Qualified, and Modest about It3 Unbiased Historian & Devoted Daughter4 Crying like a Woman and Writing like a Man5 Gathering Research without Leaving the HousePart II A Power-Hungry Conspirator? 6 Death-Bed Dramas7 Celebrating an Odd Bird8 A Room of One's Own9 Ambition & Brotherly Love10 The "Fury of a Medea" ConclusionsAcknowledgements Bibliography

Leonora Neville is the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author most recently of Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium.

So deeply ingrained is the narrative of Anna's treason that, although it hangs by the slenderest thread, no Byzantinist until now has dared to challenge it. In her courageous revisionist history, Leonora Neville finally does so. A princess who presumed to write military history, Anna has long remained a baffling, anomalous figure. It is only now that her valour, as well as her vulnerability, comes into clear focus.

• ContentsAbbreviations Introduction Part I: A Good Historian and a Good Woman 1 Why didn't Greek Women write history? 2 Qualified, and Modest about It3 Unbiased Historian & Devoted Daughter4 Crying like a Woman and Writing like a Man5 Gathering Research without Leaving the HousePart II A Power-Hungry Conspirator? 6 Death-Bed Dramas7 Celebrating an Odd Bird8 A Room of One's Own9 Ambition & Brotherly Love10 The "Fury of a Medea" ConclusionsAcknowledgements Bibliography