Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400

Anna Comnena Writes a Byzantine History

Meet one of the most significant historians of the First Crusade: Anna Comnena. Denied her dream of ruling as empress in Byzantium, the highly educated Anna made a different kind of mark on history by producing one of the most thorough and clear-eyed records of a momentous event that would echo through the ages.