num_pages: 226
description: The year is 1095. Pope Urban II has announced the beginning of the First Crusade. Knights from all corners of the Holy Roman Empire ride towards the Queen of all Cities - the gem of Byzantium and the most magnificent and breathtaking metropolis in the world. Constantinople is the city of Emperor Alexios Komnenos and his daughter Anna - a woman ahead of her time.Born in a world that has little regard for women raised in the luxurious and deadly palaces of the Byzantine capital Anna Komnena strives to break the chains of familial bondage and affirm herself as a physician philosopher and historian. As a child she is precocious as a teenager- reckless and as a young woman she is determined to follow her heart. Threats intrigue and imprisonment separate her from the people she loves but are unable to stop the flight of her mind.
language: English
title: Born in the Purple
publisher: None