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Anna Komnene (aka Anna Comnena, 1083-1153 CE) was the eldest daughter of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118 CE) and the author of a lengthy biography of her father's reign, the Alexiad. Although not an impartial history, Anna's...

Women played a vital role in the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) not only by supporting the major reformers as wives but also through their own literary and political influence. Their contributions were largely marginalized in the past...

A c. 1893 oil on canvas, Anna the Javanese (aka Aita Tamari Vahine Judith te Parari), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Anna was Gauguin's mistress when he returned to Paris from Tahiti in 1893. Anna had a...

Alexios I Komnenos (Alexius Comnenus) was emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 1081 to 1118 CE. Regarded as one of the great Byzantine rulers, Alexios defeated the Normans, the Pechenegs, and, with the help of the First Crusaders, the Seljuks...

Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe, oil on canvas by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1792. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

A c. 1781 painting by Johann Nepomuk della Croce showing Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) and his two children, Maria Anna (nicknamed ‘Nannerl’, 1751-1829) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).

An 1886 photograph of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) and his wife Anna in London.

A portrait of Anna d'Este (1537-1607), daughter of Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (l. 1508-1559). (Palace of Versailles)

Olympia Fulvia Morata (l. 1526-1555, also given as Olimpia) was an Italian scholar, poet, and writer who sought to advance the Protestant Reformation in Italy. She was considered one of the greatest classical scholars of her time but was...

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-princess-who-rewrote-history-leonora-neville Anna Komnene, daughter of Byzantine emperor Alexios, spent the last decade of her...