Editing Anna Komnene (section)

==Historian and intellectual==
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In the seclusion of the monastery, Anna dedicated her time to studying [[philosophy]] and history. She held esteemed intellectual gatherings, including those dedicated to [[Aristotle|Aristotelian studies]].<ref>Browning 1990, pp. 397–399.</ref> Anna's intellectual genius and breadth of knowledge is evident in her few works. Among other things, she was conversant with philosophy, literature, grammar, theology, astronomy, and medicine. It can be assumed because of minor errors that she may have quoted [[Homer]] and the [[Bible]] from memory when writing her most celebrated work, the ''Alexiad''.  Her contemporaries, like the metropolitan Bishop of Ephesus, Georgios Tornikes, regarded Anna as a person who had reached "the highest summit of wisdom, both secular and divine."