Arystokracja przeciw Komnenom – spisek Michała Anemasa jako reakcja na przemiany społeczne w Bizancjum u schyłku XI wieku
Aristocracy against Komnenoi – The plot of Michael Anemas as a reaction to social changes in Byzantium, at the end of the 11thcentury

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the events described in the twelfth book of Alexiad, known as the plot of Michael Anemas. As author suggests, motives that led Anemai brothers and their allies, to failed attempt to kill Alexios I, were much more complex than Anna Komnene described. Starting from background of the plot, going through discussing the exact date, analyzing people involved, their motives and the way they were persecuted, this article leads to the conclusion that rebels felt unsatisfied by Alexios’s system of rule – the Komnenian “clan”. As the last of its kind, during the rule of Komnenoi dynasty, the plot of Michael Anemas proves to us a change in the structure of the Byzantine aristocracy, that occurred in the last twelve years of the eleventh century.

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