The Alexiad

Contents

 * Introduction by the translator
 * Preface
 * Book I - From Alexius' Youth to the Last Months of Botaniates' Reign
 * Book II - The Revolt of the Comneni
 * Book III - The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles
 * Book IV - War with the Normans (1081-2)
 * Book V - War with the Normans (1082-83) (i-vii) • Alexius' First Battle with Heretics - John Italus (viii-ix)
 * Book VI - Norman West • Death of Robert Guiscard • The Turks
 * Book VII - War with the Scyths (1087-90)
 * Book VIII - War with the Scyths (1091) • Victory at Levunium (29 April 1091) • Plots against the Emperor
 * Book IX - Turkish War • Dalmatian Interlude (1092-4) • Conspiracy of Nicephorus Diogenes (1094)
 * Book X - Second Battle with Heresy • The Cuman War • First Crusade (1094-97)
 * Book XI - The First Crusade (1097-1104)
 * Book XII - Domestic Conflicts • Second Norman Invasion (1105-7)
 * Book XIII - The Conpiracy of Aston • The Final Defeat of Bohemond • The Treaty of Devol. (1107-8)
 * Book XIV - Turks, Franks, Cumans and Manichaeans (1108-15)
 * Book XV - Victory over the Turks • The Orphanage • Heresy of the Bogomils • Last Illness and Death of Alexius (1116-18)