Время Анны Комниной - стр. 3
Книга А. Ю. Митрофанова «Время Анны Комниной» – отнюдь не сухая научная монография, но исследование, написанное живым литературным языком, и этим она выгодно отличается от многих современных публикаций по истории Византии. Можно даже утверждать, что автор книги стремится подражать своей главной героине – принцессе Анне Комниной.
Один мудрец как-то сказал, что Бог определяет долготу человеческой жизни, а широту жизни определяет сам человек. Судьба Анны Комниной в полной мере подтверждает эти слова, ибо августейшая принцесса сумела вместить в своей творческой жизни целую эпоху византийской истории…
Summary
The book “The Time of Anna Komnena” by A. Yu. Mitrofanov is devoted to the reflection of the reign of Emperor Alexios I (1081–1118) and his era in the main work of his daughter, Princess Anna Komnena (1083–1153/1154), which is known as the “Alexiad”. As noted by the prominent Byzantintinist and Art Historian Hans Belting, Emperor Alexios I was depicted by Anna Komnena as a “living icon” (als lebende Ikone)[6]. However, A. Yu. Mitrofanov proves that despite the desire of Anna Komnena to write a laudatory biography of her father, in reality, the “Alexiad” far exceeded the genre framework of the panegyric and became a mirror of the era, the fate of which largely determined the reign of Emperor Alexios I. Anna Komnena wrote the “Alexiad” thirty years after the death of her father and the unsuccessful attempt at a palace coup, which led Anna Komnena to an honorable exile in the monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos of Grace “Kecharitomene”. There the princess wrote the Alexiad during the turbulent reign of her nephew, Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (1143–1180), who, at the cost of incredible efforts, tried to retransform the Byzantine Empire into a military and political hegemon, as the Byzantine Empire was in the era of Emperor Justinian I the Great (527–565) and Emperor Basil II the Bulgar Slayer (976–1025). According to A. Yu. Mitrofanov, the “Alexiad”, written by Anna Komnena around 1146–1148, was a kind of political testament to her nephew of the imperial family and at the same time an opposition manifesto, which had been directed against his pro-Latin policy. According to A. Yu. Mitrofanov, it was the combination of a biography, of a historical chronicle and of a current political manifesto, which made Anna Komnena’s “Alexiad” the book that Karl Krumbacher rightly called “the best historical work that the Middle Ages left us»[7]. As A. Yu. Mitrofanov notes, some of the court intrigues described by Anna Komnena, in particular, the romantic relationship of the Empress Maria of Alania and Alexios Komnenos, find parallels in the work of the Seljuk poet Fakhruddin Gurgani (XI