Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-05523-7 (ISBN)
Yet, Isaac is a fascinating figure at the crossroads of different worlds. He was an intellectual, the author of the first running commentary on the Iliad ever written in Byzantium. He was a patron, sponsoring magnificent buildings and supporting artists in and outside the capital. He was a would-be usurper, attempting to seize the throne several times. He was a shrewd diplomat, forging alliances with Armenian, Turkish, and Latin rulers.
Modern scholars have so far failed to see the interplay between Isaac’s multiple personae. Isaac the scholar is rarely brought into conversation with Isaac the usurper, Isaac the patron, or Isaac the world traveller. Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines, this book fills a significant gap in the literature. As the first comprehensive study of one of the protagonists of the Komnenian era, it is essential reading for students of the Byzantine Empire. In addition, the portrait of Isaac presented here provides scholars of pre-modern civilizations with a relevant case study. By exposing the permeability of the theoretical and geographical ‘borders’ we use to conceptualize the past, Isaac epitomizes the interconnectedness at the heart of the so-called Global Middle Ages.
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.
Introducing Isaac Komnenos
Valeria Flavia Lovato
Ties of blood, bids for power: usurpation attempts during the reign of John II Komnenos
Angeliki Papageorgiou
Isaac in exile: Down and Out in Constantinople and Jerusalem?
Maximilian Lau
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
The sebastokrator Isaac at home
Paul Magdalino
Change and innovation in twelfth-century Byzantium: the case of hair and hairstyles
Alex Rodriguez Suarez
Komnenian book culture: tracing tastes, mapping networks, unravelling self-(re)presentation
Kallirroe Linardou
Notes on the construction of Isaac Komnenos’s imperial profile by Theodoros Prodromos
Marina Loukaki
The dignity of kingship asserted: Isaac’s ‘political’ notes on the Iliad
Filippomaria Pontani
Isaac Komnenos and the scholarship of a learned prince
André-Louis Rey
It runs in the family: Proclus, pronoia and the Komnenoi
Aglae Pizzone
Isaac Komnenos and the Letter of Aristeas: a Byzantine Ptolemy between Homer, Aristotle and the Bible
Valeria Flavia Lovato
Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos as a founder: philosophical implications in architectural patronage
Giulia Troncarelli
A ‘barren and senseless shoot’, a ‘flawless ally’ and an ‘enkolpion of pearls’: Isaac at Kosmosoteira
Margaret Mullett
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.09.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Byzantine Cultural History |
| Zusatzinfo | 21 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 660 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-05523-5 / 1032055235 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-05523-7 / 9781032055237 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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