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.

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