Anna Komnene completes the Alexiad
1148
The Byzantine princess, retired to a Constantinople convent after a failed coup against her brother, finished a fifteen-book Greek history of her father Alexios I's reign. It remains the most vivid eyewitness account of the First Crusade from the Byzantine side and the earliest major history written by a woman.
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Also in 1148 (3 other events on record)
- Siege of Damascus · Middle East · War
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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