Anna Komnene took up the history that her husband Nikephoros Bryennios had not finished, eager to record the facts of her parents' reign, so that they should not be lost to posterity. She was also deeply moved when writing of her husband, the kaisar Nikephoros Bryennios, and even her betrothed Konstantinos Doukas, who had died half a century earlier. Otherwise, being surrounded by distinguished doctors, she studied medicine and visited the sick