Tag: Komnenos

Free Download Valeria Flavia Lovato, "Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos: Walking the Line in Twelfth-Century Byzantium "
English | ISBN: 1032055235 | 2024 | 254 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 9 MB
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) has received limited attention in modern scholarship.

Free Download Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143 (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) by Maximilian C. G. Lau
English | October 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0198888678 | True EPUB/PDF | 400 pages | 17.5/437 MB
John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win his father an alliance, and leading his own campaigns when his father died, it was left to John to try and rebuild the empire all but lost in the eleventh century.