Barb -> RE: What did you get for Christmas??? (12/26/2008 5:48:46 PM)
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I see you are interested in Byzantium. Did you read Alexiad by Anna Comnena? No I haven't, I take it that it's one you can recommend? Yes. "Within the Alexiad, she describes the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father (1081-1118), making it one of the most important sources of information on the Byzantium of the High Middle Ages. As well as this, within the Alexiad, the First Crusade's interaction with the Byzantine Empire is documented (despite being written nearly fifty years after the crusade), which highlights the conflicting perceptions of the East and West in the early 12th century." It is somewhere in this page, along with few more historical sources: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
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