Historian Edward Gibbon wrote that Anna Komnene's Alexiad displays the vanity of a female author on every page

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The text and terms of the Treaty of Devol concluded between Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Bohemond of Taranto are recorded in Anna Komnene's Alexiad

The Gesta Francorum, an early 12th-century Latin chronicle, portrayed Bohemond of Taranto as a heroic leader while presenting Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos as untrustworthy

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The Alexiad was composed in Greek by Anna Komnene during the late 1140s and early 1150s

The Alexiad is the first narrative history composed in a European language by a female author

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