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John II Komnenos, emperor of Byzantium- Front Cover 1 John II Komnenos, emperor of Byzantium 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of figures 8 List of contributors 11 Preface 14 List of abbreviations 17 Map of the Byzantine empire under John II Komnenos 19 Life and reign of John II Komnenos (1118–1143): a chronology 20 Chapter 1: John II Komnenos: a historiographical essay 24 Chapter 2: John II Komnenos before the year 1118 34 Birth 37 The coronation 39 John’s status in the years 1092–1118 40 Conclusions 42 Chapter 3: Narratives of John II Komnenos’ wars: comparing Byzantine and modern approaches 45 Chapter 4: The political ideology of John II Komnenos 60 Chapter 5: The triumph of 1133 76 The realia of the triumph 77 Topography 78 Composition 80 Ideology 82 Tradition and innovation in the Prodromic poems 83 The context of the triumph of 1133 85 Ekphrasis in heroic verses of the procession of the emperor Kyr John Komnenos on the occasion of the capture of Kastamon 89 Chapter 6: Emperor John II’s encounters with foreign rulers 94 Masoud I, Seljuk Sultan of Rum (1125/6) 99 Stephen II, king of Hungary (1129) 100 Leo II, prince of Armenian Cilicia (1137–1139/40) 102 Raymond

Published

2019

Language

EN