Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos

Modern scholars have so far failed to see the interplay between Isaac's multiple personae. Isaac the scholar is rarely brought into conversation with Isaac the usurper, Isaac the patron, or Isaac the world traveller.

Valeria Flavia Lovato is a Research Fellow at the Center for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon. After receiving her Ph.D. from the Universities of Turin and Lausanne, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern Denmark, where she focused on Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos, and at the University of Geneva. Her current book projects include a monograph on Odysseus in twelfth-century Byzantium and, in collaboration with Silvio Bär, the first English 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.

Introducing Isaac Komnenos Valeria Flavia Lovato - Ties of blood, bids for power: usurpation attempts during the reign of John II Komnenos Angeliki Papageorgiou - Isaac in exile: Down and Out in Constantinople and Jerusalem? Maximilian Lau - From Christ the Saviour to the Mother of God 'Saviour of the World': the sebastokrator Isaac and his place within the first Purple-born generation of the Komnenoi Vlada Stankovi- - The sebastokrator Isaac at home Paul Magdalino - Change and innovation in twelfth-century Byzantium: the case of hair and hairstyles Alex Rodriguez Suarez - Komnenian book culture: tracing tastes, mapping networks, unravelling self-(re)presentation Kallirroe Linardou - Notes on the construction of Isaac Komnenos's imperial profile by Theodoros Prodromos Marina Loukaki - The dignity of kingship asserted: Isaac's 'political' notes on the Iliad Filippomaria Pontani - Isaac Komnenos and the scholarship of a learned prince André-Louis Rey - It runs in the family: Proclus, pronoia and the Komnenoi Aglae Pizzone - Isaac Komnenos and the Letter of Aristeas: a Byzantine Ptolemy between Homer, Aristotle and the Bible Valeria Flavia Lovato - Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos as a founder: philosophical implications in architectural patronage Giulia Troncarelli - A 'barren and senseless shoot', a 'flawless ally' and an 'enkolpion of pearls': Isaac at Kosmosoteira Margaret Mullett