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Emperor John II Komnenos : rebuilding new Rome 1118-1143 / Maximilian C.G. Lau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lau, Maximilian, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in Byzantium.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in Byzantium
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byzantine Empire--History--John II Comnenus, 1118-1143.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire--Politics and government--1081-1453.
- John II Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1087 or 1088-1143.
- John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 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. This book re-evaluates an emperor traditionally overlooked in favour of his father, hero of the Alexiad written by John's sister Anna, and of his son Manuel, acclaimed for reigning at the height of Komnenian power.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Maps
- Author's Notes
- Note on Transliteration
- Note on Citation
- Note on Translations
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Overshadowed by Father and Son?
- One: Sources: Problems and Opportunities
- Working through Choniates and Kinnamos
- Contemporary Court Sources
- Further Byzantine Sources
- Non-Byzantine Sources
- Archaeological Evidence
- Conclusion: A New John
- Two: Young Emperor John and the Rule of Constantinople
- An Imperial Education
- Pawn Becomes Knight
- The Politics of Transition and the Struggle for Sole Rule
- 1118: A Long-Planned Seizure of Power
- Were There Plots? Resistance to John 1112-19
- Old and New Government
- Civil Affairs and the New Regime
- Three: The Horizons of 1118
- Tour d'horizon
- The Marriage Alliance that Won the War, and John's Serb Intervention
- Alexios' Last Campaign to Philomelion and John's Consolidation
- An Orthodox Black Sea Alliance?
- Four: Nomad Invasion
- Facing the Horde-the Battle of Berroia and Its Prelude
- The Wider Conflict of the Settled against the Nomadic
- The Nature of the Paristrion after Berroia
- The Venetian Fleet and Corfu: the Grey Lining of the Silver Cloud
- Five: Client Management and the Crisis of 1126
- Managing the Client Principality of Raška-the Campaign of 1123
- Anatolian Campaigns of 1124
- The Return of the Venetian Fleet
- The Three Fugitive Princes of 1125
- The Choices of 1125
- The Rebellion of Gabras and Peace with the Venetians: The Crisis of 1126
- Six: The Raškan Insurrection and the Hungarian War
- Countdown to War with Hungary
- 'Fire and Sword' on the Danube
- Control of the Balkan Frontier: Fortresses and Client Management
- The Way the West Was Won.
- Seven: Betrayal and Conquest in Anatolia
- Anatolia in the 1120s: The Rise of Ghazi Danishmend
- The Treachery of Isaac
- The First Paphlagonian Campaign of 1132
- The Second Paphlagonian Campaign of 1134 and the Treachery of Mas'ud
- The Final Paphlagonian Campaign of 1135 and the Siege of Gangra
- Eight: The Great Eastern Campaign for Cilicia and Syria
- The Antiochene Proposal, the Siege of Seleukeia and Diplomatic Moves
- Cilicia in Chaos
- The Conquest of Cilicia, Spring 1137
- The Emperor Arrives at Antioch
- The Autumn War of 1137
- The Syrian Campaign of 1138
- Triumph and Tribulation in Antioch
- Nine: The Last Campaigns
- The Quiet Fall of Gabras of Trebizond
- A Campaign Too Far: Logistics, Treachery, and Failure at Neokaisareia
- Italian Diplomacy
- Renewed Turkish Civil Wars and the Lake Pousgouse Campaign in 1142
- The Return East
- The Demand for Antioch
- Winter in Cilicia: The Jerusalem Proposal
- The Death of John
- Ten: Fortresses, the Provinces, and the Army
- Building Security in Anatolia
- The Dividends of Castellating: The New Themata
- The New Komnenian Army
- John's Military Achievement
- Eleven: The Church under John: Philanthropy and Ecumenism
- Piety and Philanthropy: The Pantokrator and the Law
- Preparation for an Ecumenical Council
- Symphonia
- Conclusion: New Rome Rebuilt?
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 22, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lau, Maximilian C. G. Emperor John II Komnenos
- ISBN:
- 0-19-199518-5
- 0-19-888868-6
- 0-19-888869-4
- OCLC:
- 1398633335
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