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For Anna Akhmatova.(Poem)
; For Anna Akhmatova Who had been in love with her that summer? Did it matter? The...howled in indignation, more like the peasant she had come to resemble than Anna Comnena or Cleopatra or the ikon of words who was asked by other women at the...
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What book?
; Donna Leon . . .ARE YOU READING NOW? THE Alexiad Of Anna Comnena (Penguin, [pound]10.99). She was the daughter of the 11th-century emperor of Byzantium and wrote his biography. She's especially...
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Anniversaries
; Births: Anna Comnena, Byzantine princess and historian, 1083; John Keill, philosopher and mathematician, 1671; Madame Marie Tussaud (Grosholz), waxwork...
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Letters to the Editor
; Corruption Regarding Rep. William J. Jefferson, D-La.: Anna Comnena (1093-1153), a Byzantine historian, is said to have remarked about Robert Guiscard (1016-1085), the founder of the Norman state...
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Christians and the first crusade: Douglas James explain why so many in the Christian West answered Urban II's call to arms following the Council of Clermont in 1095.
; Though Latin Christendom's response to Pope Urban II's cry for crusade was nothing akin to Anna Comnena's hyperbolic assertion that the 'whole of the West and all of the barbarian races' converged on her father's city of Constantinople...
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Bloodstock Desk: maiden winner of the day.(Sports)
; ...Maiden Fillies' Stakes (3yo, 1m4f) Goslar (f In The Wings-Anna Of Brunswick, by Rainbow Quest) Breeder: Dunchurch Lodge...of stamina in modern breeding take heart; Goslar's got it. Anna Of Brunswick's siblings include Group 3 mile-and-a-half winner Anno Luce, Anna Comnena, dam of the smart Sadlers ...
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Books in Brief
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th century writer Anna Comnena, murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...fabulous they are. The history of the First Crusade and Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
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Page turners; Murder and intrigue span the globe, from Byzantium to Burundi. Who's guilty? Reviewer Yvonne Zipp is on the case.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th-century writer Anna Comnena murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...are. The history of the first Crusade and the life of Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
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Even non-thinkers can appreciate McKennitt's 'Muse' TUNED IN
; ...songwriter quotes Sir Walter Scott, channels a character from Homer's "The Odyssey" and is inspired by Byzantine princess Anna Comnena as she considers Richard the Lionheart, Kurdish leader Saladin and the 12th century clash of Christians and Muslims...
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(book reviews)
; ...were part of that western technological superiority best represented by the crossbow: |a truly diabolical machine' as Anna Comnena described it. The same skills went into improving siege engines, fortification and armament. This stage of crusading...
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