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Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos Twelfth‑century Byzantium
is characterised by a striking artistic vitality and pro‑ found socio‑political changes. The Constantinopolitan elites, led by the Komne‑ nian 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) has received limited attention in modern scholarship. 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 multi‑ ple 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 civilisations with a relevant case study. By exposing the permeability of the theoretical and geographical ‘bor‑ ders’ we use to conceptualise the past, Isaac epitomises 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 PhD from the Universities of Turin and Lausanne, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern Den‑ mark, where she focused on Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos, and at the Uni‑ versity of Geneva. Her current book projects include a monograph on Odysseus in twelfth‑century Byzantium and, in collaboration with Silvio Bär, the first Eng‑ lish 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
Contributors
Maximilian Lau is a Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History at Worcester Col‑ lege and Co‑Investigator of the AHRC Research Project: Noblesse Oblige? ‘Bar‑ ons’ and the Public Good in Medieval Afro‑Eurasia: https://noblesseoblige.exeter. ac.uk/. He teaches for the Faculty of History and the Department of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and he is also a senior member of the common room of St Cross College. He read History at the University of St Andrews before com‑ ing to Oxford to do his MSt in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and then his Doctorate in History at Oriel College. He was then made a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Tokyo, in addition to being appointed an Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
Kallirroe Linardou is an Assistant Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Art and a member of the Department of Art Theory and History at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She specialises in Byzantine illustrated manuscripts and has published ex‑ tensively on the subject. Together with Leslie Brubaker, she co‑edited the volume Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium, Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, in Honour of Professor Α.A.M. Bryer (Aldershot, 2007). Her collection of papers on Byzantine illustrated manuscripts is forthcoming with Crete University Press (in Greek).
Marina Loukaki is a Professor of Byzantine Literature at the National and Ka‑ podistrian University of Athens. Her research interests focus on the study of Byzantine rhetoric and textual editing, issues of high Byzantine literature, impe‑ rial ideology and Byzantine education. Her latest book, Les Grâces à Athènes: Éloge d’un gouverneur byzantin par Nikolaos Kataphlôron, has been published by De Gruyter, Byzantinisches Archiv, 36 (Berlin–Boston, 2019). Her most re‑ cent publications include ‘Une rue centrale de Constantinople, piège funeste pour les marchands voyageurs et leurs animaux: les doléances d’un Constan‑ tinopolitain à Jean II Comnène’, in I. Grimm‑Stadelmann et al. (ed.), Anekdota Byzantina, Studien zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur. Festschrift für Albrecht Berger anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags, Byzantinisches Archiv, 41 (Berlin–Boston, 2023), 413–26; ‘Les rats et le vieux gentilhomme gourmand: Notes sur un épisode de Timariôn’, in Α. Alexakis and D.S. Georgakopoulos (ed.), Kalligraphos. Essays on Byzantine Language, Literature and Palaeography: From Byzantine Historiography to Post‑Byzantine Poetry, Byzantinisches Ar‑ chiv, 42 (Berlin–Boston, 2023), 77–8; ‘Notes sur la formation juridique dans des écoles de Constantinople (XIe–XIIe siècles)’, in B. Caseau and C. Messis (ed.), Droit et société à Byzance et dans sa sphère d’influence, Dossiers byzantins, 21 (Paris, 2022), 123–36.
Valeria Flavia Lovato obtained her PhD from the Universities of Turin and Lau‑ sanne, with a dissertation on the reception of Odysseus by John Tzetzes and Eu‑ stathios of Thessalonike. She is now a Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon. Her current project, funded by the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology, revolves around the Byzantine concept of ‘urbanity’ (asteiotes). Between 2019 and 2023, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Geneva and at the University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Medieval Literature, where she focused on Isaac Komnenos, exploring the connection between his literary production and political agenda. Among her current projects are the publication of a monograph on Odysseus in twelfth‑century Byzantium (under consideration with Oxford University Press) and, in collaboration with Silvio Bär (Oslo), an English translation of John Tzetzes’ Little Big Iliad (forthcoming with Liverpool University Press). Her previous publi‑ cations deal with various aspects of Komnenian literature, with a special focus on Homeric scholarship and practices of authorial self‑fashioning.
Paul Magdalino studied history and received his doctorate at Oxford. He taught for thirty years at the University of St Andrews, where he is an Emeritus Profes‑ sor of Byzantine History. He has also held teaching appointments at Harvard and Koç University, Istanbul, in addition to research fellowships in the United States, Germany and Australia. His doctoral thesis was on the history of Thessaly in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; his research subsequently extended to other periods and aspects of Byzantine history, with special attention to the twelfth cen‑ tury, the ‘Macedonian Renaissance’, the textual evidence for lost buildings, the role of astrology and prophecy in Byzantine culture, and the topography and urban development of Constantinople. He has authored three monographs and numerous articles and book chapters, in addition to editing and co‑editing collaborative vol‑ umes. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002.
Margaret Mullett is Professor of Byzantine Studies emerita at Queen’s University Belfast, where she taught for thirty‑five years and built the Institute of Byzantine Studies, and the AHRC Centre for Byzantine Cultural History with Newcastle and Sussex. She was Director of the British Academy’s Evergetis project and General Editor of Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations. After teaching in Paris at the EHESS, she held a chair of Gender Studies at the University of Vienna 2007– 2008. She was Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks between 2009 and 2015 and after that Visiting Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Vienna (2016) and Visiting Professor of Byzantine Greek at Uppsala University (2017). She works on the borderlines of history and literature, on epistolography, narrative, and drama; on patronage and occasionality, gender and emotion, per‑ formance and genre. Her most recent books are edited volumes on the senses in Byzantium (with Susan Harvey), on storytelling (with Charis Messis and Ingela Nilsson), on the Holy Apostles (with Robert Ousterhout) and on Byzantine emo‑ tions (again with Susan Harvey). She is currently working on Byzantine tents and on the Christos Paschon. With Liz James and Jim Crow, she edits the Routledge series Studies in Byzantine Cultural History. She is an Honorary Professor in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh.
Angeliki Papageorgiou (†) completed her doctoral thesis, John II Komnenos and his era (1118–1143), at the University of Athens in 2007. Since 2008, she was an Adjunct Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Slavic Studies of the Uni‑ versity of Athens. Her research interests focused on the transition from the middle Byzantine to the late Byzantine period and the social, diplomatic and ideological history of the Komnenian era, as well as the relations between Byzantium and the Slavs from the twelfth century onwards. Her publications include: The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja: Translation with Historical Commentary. The People and the Places of the Priest of Duklja (Athens, 2012); The Slavic World in the Mid‑ dle Ages (Athens, 2014); John II Komnenos and His Era (1118–1143) (Athens, 2017); Byzantium and Balkan Slavs: War, Ideology and the Image of the “Other” (Athens, 2018); Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality (11th–15th c.), co‑edited with Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Athina Kolia‑Dermitzaki (London, 2019); One Century since the Beginning of the First World War: The Russian Emigra‑ tion in Greece and the Balkans, co‑edited with Nikos Papastratigakis and Panos Sophoulis (Athens, 2022).
Aglae Pizzone is a Byzantinist with a training in classics. In her research, she focuses on cultural history and history of ideas. She is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Greek at the University of Southern Denmark. She is interested in autography, self‑commentaries in the Greek Middle Ages as well as in the Byzantine commentaries on Hermogenes. She has discovered new autograph notes by John Tzetzes in the manuscript Leiden, University Library, Voss. gr. Q1. She is currently principal investigator in the MSCA Doctoral Network ‘AntCom. From Antiquity to community: rethinking classical heritage through citi‑ zen humanities’ (2023–2027). Recent publications include ‘Self‑authorization and strategies of autography in John Tzetzes’, GRBS, 60.4 (2020), 652–90; ‘Tzetzes and the prokatastasis: a tale of people, manuscripts, and performances’, in E. Prodi (ed.), ΤΖΕΤΖΙΚΑΙ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΙ (Bologna, 2022), 49–104; and the volume, co‑edited with Douglas Cairns, Martin Hinterberger and Matteo Zaccarini, Emotions through Time: From Greece to Byzantium (Heidelberg, 2022).
Filippomaria Pontani is a Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari. While primarily concerned with scholarship and manuscript transmission in the Byzantine and humanistic period (from Plutarch’s Natural Questions to Planudes’ edition of Ptolemy, down to Pletho’s De Homero), he is currently editing the scholia to Homer’s Odyssey (five volumes so far, Rome 2007–2022; prolegomena: Sguardi su Ulisse, Rome, 2005). He has published ex‑ tensively on Greek and Latin texts (from Sappho’s Nachleben to Demosthenes, from Aeschylus’s Choephori to Euripides’ Medea, from Virgil to Petronius, from the rise of ancient grammar to allegory and the literary facies of some ancient myths; he has discovered new fragments of Callimachus, Hipponax and others), as well as on Byzantine (Eustathios of Thessalonike, Isaac Porphyrogennetos, etc.), humanist (Poliziano’s Liber Epigrammatum Graecorum, Rome, 2002; Kondo‑ leon’s Scritti omerici, Leuven, 2018; unpublished poems by Markos Mousouros and Ianos Laskaris; a vast anthology of ancient Greek versification in Europe, The Hellenizing Muse [Berlin, 2021], with Stefan Weise) and modern Greek literature (the vast anthology Poeti greci del Novecento, Milan, 2010, as well as several translations of authors from Roidis to Kazantzakis and Vayenas, and essays on Cavafy, Montis, etc.).
André‑Louis Rey is a Senior Lecturer (maître d’enseignement et de recherche) in Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Geneva, where he teaches textual criticism and ecdotics, as well as Byzantine literature and cultural history. His doctoral thesis, which provides the first complete edition, with transla‑ tion and commentary, of a collection of Christian Homeric centos, was published in the Sources Chrétiennes (vol. 437) with the title Patricius, Eudocie, Optimus, Côme de Jérusalem, Centons homériques (Paris, 1998). His research interests en‑ compass Byzantine monasticism, Byzantine poetry (George of Pisidia, Constantine Manasses) and the transmission of medical texts (humoral treatises by Galen). He also catalogued the Greek manuscripts hosted by the Geneva Library (Bibliothèque de Genève). His latest projects include the study and translation of Isaac Casau‑ bon’s Ephemerides.
Alex Rodriguez Suarez holds a PhD from King’s College London (2014). He has conducted research in Turkey (ANAMED, AKMED), Bulgaria (CAS Sofia), Italy (Centro Vittore Branca), Greece (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) and Lebanon (Orient‑Institut Beirut). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Real Academia de España en Roma. His recent projects have focused on the religious soundscapes of Christian communities in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, particularly the use of church bells. His other research interests include cultural exchange and iconography.
Vlada Stanković is a Professor of Byzantine Studies, Chair of Byzantine Studies at the University of Belgrade and an Adjunct Professor at the European University of Cyprus. His areas of specialisation include the period of the Komnenian dynasty, church–state relations in the middle Byzantine period, and the medieval Balkans. His most recent publications include ‘Kinship, orthodoxy and political ideology: the Byzantines and the Balkans after the catastrophe of 1204’, BSl, 80 (2022), 108–119; ‘Changes in identity and ideology in the Byzantine world in the second half of the twelfth century: the case of Serbia’, in Y. Stouraitis (ed.), Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval Roman World (Edinburgh, 2022), 387–399; ‘Death in Byzantium. Reflecting on the Byzantine concept of death and its place in the men‑ tality and identity of the Byzantines’, in V. Stanković (ed.), Death, Illness, Body and Soul in Written and Visual Culture in Byzantium and Late Medieval Balkans (Belgrade, 2021), 9–37. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, in 2014/15 and is the founder and editor‑in‑chief of the series Byz‑ antium: A European Empire and Its Legacy, for Lexington Books, United States.
Giulia Troncarelli obtained her PhD in History of Byzantine Art at La Sapienza, Università di Roma and collaborated with the Faculty of History of Art at La Sapienza as ‘cultore della materia’ (subject expert) in History of Byzantine Art. Currently, she works for the Italian Ministry of Culture. She has worked on early Byzantine art, focusing especially on the Sts Sergius and Bacchus Church in Constantinople, its epigraphy and the textual transmission of the De Aedificiis paragraph dedicated to the building. Her most recent studies are dedicated to aris‑ tocratic and female patronage in the Komnenian era, focusing on the relationship between literary texts and works of art tied to a group of aristocratic patrons.
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