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Anna Komnene commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian.

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Anna Komnene: princess, historian, and conspirator?

Leonora Neville

Anna Komnene was a Byzantine princess and author of a history of the reign of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118). The International Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages summarized her life story as follows:

Anna Komnene (born Constantinople 2 Dec. 1083, died c.1153/4) was a Byzantine princess and historian, and the author of the laudatory historical biography Alexiad modeled on Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad. Eldest daughter of Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina, she received an excellent education from a young age (literature, historiography, philology, poetry) and could easily be considered as one of the most educated women of the Middle Ages. While still an infant, Alexios I had betrothed her to Constantine Doukas, co-emperor and son of Michael VII Doukas (who had been overthrown by Nikephoros III Botaneiates in 1078). As a result, Anna always nurtured the hope that as the future wife of Constantine Doukas, she would succeed to the throne. However, the birth of her brother John (I

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Abstract

In The Diary of Anna Comnena, or The Very Political Adventures of a Transgender Byzantine Princess in African Elevators, Zamler-Carhart impersonates the 12th-century Byzantine princess and historian Anna Comnena as she comes out as trans and tries to write her father’s imperial biography, The Alexiad, while in exile in contemporary West Africa. Outside the Empire, categories become fluid and elevators stop on strange floors. Prose slips into graphic poetry, medieval Christianity into mystical Sahelian Islam, Byzantine chronicles into erotic gore anime. Anna’s first-person diary careens down a series of sinister African elevators and intersectional magic spaces. She is an outcast of the Empire but also a product of it, exploring the dynamics of contemporary African textile production, vernacular theater, animal husbandry, jihad, urban design, television, and coin metallurgy from the perspective of a 12th-century trans Byzantine engineer. The Diary of Anna Comnena initially adopts the same Empire-centric perspective as the historical Alexiad, but the dystopian

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Comnena, Anna

December 1, 1083
Constantinople

c. 1148

Byzantine princess, historian, and scholar

Anna Comnena, The Alexiad of Anna Comnena, book 14, chapter 3">
"I swear by the perils the emperor endured for the well-being of the Roman people, by his sorrows and the travails he suffered on behalf of the Christians, that I am not favoring him when I say or write such things....I regard him as dear, but the truth is dearer still."
—Anna Comnena, The Alexiad of Anna Comnena, book 14, chapter 3.

Anna Comnena was one of the most famous female scholars of the Middle Ages. The daughter of the emperor of the Byzantine Empire (the successor to the Roman Empire) based in Constantinople, she lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and was known for her scholarship in medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and music. However, she is best remembered for her fifteen-volume biography of her father, the emperor Alexius I (see entry), and for a history of the Byzantine Empire during his reign that she wrote in her old age. This work provides much information about the First