Treasure for Historians

The First Female Historian

Almost all that we know of Bede is contained in the short autobiographical notice which he has appended to his Ecclesiastical History.

Byzantine Princess Anna Comnena is considered the world's first female historian.

Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic chieftan and author of poetry and history, whose Heimskringla (History of the Kings of Norway) remains one of the most important sources of Scandinavian history.

Albert of Aix was the author of a history of the First Crusade that was widely known in the Middle Ages.

In his historical writings, Marcellinus Ammianus gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus.

Scippione Ammirato is best known for a history of Florence he wrote in about 1600.

Known as the first woman historian for her work The Alexiad, Anna Comnena was an ambitious Byzantine princess.

Ibn Khaldun is generally considered the greatest Arab historian as well as the father of Sociology and the science of History