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Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos: Walking the Line in Twelfth-Century Byzantium book cover

1st Edition

Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos Walking the Line in Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Edited By Valeria Flavia Lovato Copyright 2025
272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Twelfth-century Byzantium is characterized by a striking artistic vitality and profound socio-political changes. The Constantinopolitan elites, led by the Komnenian dynasty initiated by Alexios I, were the driving force behind the renewed intellectual landscape and power dynamics of the century. Despite the wealth of studies devoted to the Komnenians, the sebastokrator Isaac (1093–after 1152)... Read more

Introducing Isaac Komnenos

Valeria Flavia Lovato

 

  1. Ties of blood, bids for power: usurpation attempts during the reign of John II Komnenos

Angeliki Papageorgiou

 

  1. Isaac in exile: Down and Out in Constantinople and Jerusalem?

Maximilian Lau

 

  1. From Christ the Saviour to the Mother of God ‘Saviour of the World’: the sebastokrator Isaac and his place within the first Purple-born generation of the Komnenoi

Vlada Stanković

 

  1. The sebastokrator Isaac at home

Paul Magdalino

 

  1. Change and innovation in twelfth-century Byzantium: the case of hair and hairstyles

Alex Rodriguez Suarez

 

  1. Komnenian book culture: tracing tastes, mapping networks, unravelling self-(re)presentation

Kallirroe Linardou

 

  1. Notes on the construction of Isaac Komnenos’s imperial profile by Theodoros Prodromos

Marina Loukaki

 

  1. The dignity of kingship asserted: Isaac’s ‘political’ notes on the Iliad

Filippomaria Pontani

 

  1. Isaac Komnenos and the scholarship of a learned prince

André-Louis Rey

 

  1. It runs in the family: Proclus, pronoia and the Komnenoi

Aglae Pizzone

 

  1. Isaac Komnenos and the Letter of Aristeas: a Byzantine Ptolemy between Homer, Aristotle and the Bible

Valeria Flavia Lovato

 

  1. Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos as a founder: philosophical implications in architectural patronage

Giulia Troncarelli

 

  1. A ‘barren and senseless shoot’, a ‘flawless ally’ and an ‘enkolpion of pearls’: Isaac at Kosmosoteira

Margaret Mullett

Biography

Valeria Flavia Lovato is a Research Fellow at the Center for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon. After receiving her Ph.D. from the Universities of Turin and Lausanne, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern Denmark, where she focused on Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos, and at the University of Geneva. Her current book projects include a monograph on Odysseus in twelfth-century Byzantium and, in collaboration with Silvio Bär, the first English translation of John Tzetzes’ Little Big Iliad. Her other publications deal with various aspects of Komnenian literature, with a focus on Homeric scholarship and practices of authorial self-fashioning.

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