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Workshop Programme In the last decades, modern scholarship has 5-6 MARCH 2020 devoted much attention to the Comnenian dynasty. Surprisingly, no comprehensive study has yet been devoted to Isaac Comnenus Porphyrogenitus, son of emperor Alexius I and brother of both John II and Anna Comnena. ISAAC COMNENUS Isaac is an intriguing figure, at the crossroads between different worlds: classical PORPHYROGENITUS: scholarship, artistic patronage, courtly intrigues and international political alliances. ADDRESS WALKING THE LINE Traditional divisions between scholarly fields have prevented a comprehensive exploration IN TWELFTH- of Isaac’s many facets. CONVENT OF NOBLE MAIDENS Albani Torv 6 CENTURY Challenging this very compartmentalization, 5000 Odense C this workshop aims to bring together Isaac’s BYZANTIUM AND different worlds, contributing to a better understanding of 12th-century Byzantium. BEYOND CONTACT . Valeria F. Lovato AN INTERNATIONAL [email protected] WORKSHOP Print & Sign SDU THURSDAY 5 MARCH Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari University), FRIDAY 6 MARCH “The dignity of kingship asserted: Isaac’s ‘political’ notes on the Iliad” § 9.30 – 10.00: MORNING COFFEE Respondent: Silvio F. Bär (University of Oslo) § 9.30 – 10.50: PANEL 4: Innovation, change and conflict in the Comnenian era (Part One) § 10.00 – 10.30: Valeria F. Lovato and Lars Boje § 15.15 – 15.30: COFFEE BREAK Mortensen (SDU): welcome and introduction Vlada Stanković (University of Belgrade), § 15.30 – 17.30: PANEL 3: Isaac as patron, literatus “Dynastic conflict in the Comnenian era” § 10.30 – 12.30: PANEL 1: Isaac and 12th-century and founder Respondent: Nikolaos Chrissis (Democritus literature University of Thrace) Nikolaos Zagklas (University of Vienna), “Isaak Kallirroe Linardou (Athens School of Fine Arts), Komnenos and Theodore Prodromos: Forging “Komnenian Book-Culture: Tracing Tastes, Angeliki Papageorgiou (University of Athens), Intellectual and Patronage Ties in Twelfth- Mapping Networks” “Ties of blood, bids for power: Usurpation Century Constantinople” attempts during the reign of John II Komnenos” Respondent: Rosa Rodríguez Porto (SDU) Respondent: Nikolaos Chrissis (Democritus Respondent: Divna Manolova (University of York) University of Thrace) Marina Loukaki (University of Athens), “Notes on Margaret Mullett (University of Belfast), “A ‘barren the construction of Isaakios Komnenos' profile by and senseless shoot’, a ‘flawless ally’, and ‘an Theodoros Prodromos” enkolpion of pearls’: Isaac's Kosmosoteira” § 10.50 – 11.10: COFFEE BREAK Respondent: Aglae Pizzone (SDU) Respondent: Nikolaos Zagklas (University of § 11.10 – 12.30: PANEL 4: Innovation, change and Vienna) conflict in the Comnenian era (Part Two) Valeria F. Lovato (SDU), “What kind of exile? Aglae Pizzone (SDU), “Isaac against Proclus? A Isaac’s poem to the Virgin and the final days of a Maximilian Lau (Hitotsubashi University), “‘Ten problem of authorship” repented (?) usurper” Tongues’ on the Transformations of Isaakios” Respondent: Christian Høgel (SDU) Respondent: Julian Yolles (SDU) Respondent: Margaret Mullett (University of Belfast) Alex Rodriguez Suarez (Orient-Institut Beirut), § 12.30 – 13.30: LUNCH BREAK “Change and innovation in twelfth-century § 19.00: SPEAKERS’ DINNER Byzantium: The case of hair and hairstyles” § 14.00 – 15.15: PANEL 2: Homeric philology Respondent: Valeria F. Lovato (SDU) André-Louis Rey (University of Geneva), “Isaac Comnenus and the scholarship of a learned § 12.30 – 13.00: FINAL REMARKS prince” Respondent: Silvio F. Bär (University of Oslo) § 13.00: GOODBYE LUNCH .
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