own narrative and emotion, and yet she does not mention all personal details, such as the fact that she had four children. For some, this combination of style and lack of personal, gendered information is reconciled by her lack of modern feminist ideals, without which she was not interested in questioning her societal place in her own narrative, even though her depictions of women do not fit in with the majority of male authors of the time. Instead, her style can be understood from her belief that intelligence and nobility are far greater than gender in terms of importance, and so Anna does not view her history as overstepping any necessary gender roles. Complete manuscripts and summaries Below is the list of manuscripts containing some or all of the Alexiad. Codex Coislinianus 311, in Fonds Coislin (Paris) Codex Florentinus 70,2 Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1438 Codex Barberinianus 235 & 236 Codex Ottobonianus Graecus 131 & 137 Codex Apographum Gronovii Codex Vaticanus Graecus 981 (prologue and summary) Codex Monacensis Graecus 355 (prologue and summary) Codex Parisinus Graecus 400 (prologue and summary) Published editions See also Byzantine Empire First Crusade Attic Greek I, Anna Komnene Notes References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140s books 12th-century history books Texts about the Crusades Byzantine literature Alexios I Komnenos First Crusade Epic poems in Greek