Comments on: A Frustrated Princess Makes A Great Historian

By: Joan Stewart Smith

Joan Stewart Smith — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:34:57 +0000

35 years in a convent? No surprise that Anna had a few fantasies about ” the tall, handsome and dangerous Bohemund …”!

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:47:28 +0000

[...] p.s. If you would like to know the Byzantines’ reaction: http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/12/01/a-frustrated-princess-makes-a-great-historian/ [...]

By: Eugene Finerman

Eugene Finerman — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:45:14 +0000

Peg,

Yes, but unfortunately only on the court eunuchs.

Eugene

By: Peggles

Peggles — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:04:34 +0000

What? No heaving bosoms?

By: Eugene Finerman

Eugene Finerman — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:20:39 +0000

Michael,

I wish that I had said that!

Eugene

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:17:00 +0000

…”He had about him a certain charm…there was a hard, savage quality in his aspect–owing I suppose to his great stature and to his eyes: even his laugh sounded like a threat to others.”

(That was written 8 centuries before Judith Krantz and Barbara Steele.

The purple prose is perhaps attributable to Anna being Porphyrogenita.