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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48071-0 — The Byzantine Hellene Dimiter Angelov Index More Information Index Abbasid caliphate, 96, 171 Anagni, 139 Abydos, 74 Anaplous, settlement on the Bosporus, Achridos, 154 39, 66 Achyraous, 25, 31, 46, 50, 59, 66 Anatolia, imagery and patriotism, 40, 165, Acre, 152 215–16, 228 Adamantios, physiognomist, 192 Ancyra (Ankara), 53 Adralestos, Leo, 359 Andreeva, Maria Alexandrovna, 181, 235n62, Adrianople, 21, 26, 34, 63, 153–54, 156–60, 373 338, 341 Agapetos the Deacon, 148 Andrew II, Hungarian king, 32 Akakios, monk, 354, 365, 367, 386 Andronikos I Komnenos, 16, 24 akritai, 55, 275n55 Andronikos II Palaiologos, 107, 221–22, 232n21 Akropolites, George, 4, 9, 52, 55, 79, 82, 85, Andronikos, metropolitan bishop of Sardis, 102–3, 112–14, 116–19, 122, 124, 129, 138–39, 142–43, 213, 335, 355, 365, 369, 132, 145, 148–49, 156, 160–61, 165–66, 387 168, 174, 199, 203, 205, 207, 210, 223–24, Angelos family, 34, 58, 239n47 226, 334, 337, 347–50, 352–55, 362–64, Angelos, Constantine, 33, 46 367–70, 374, 383–85 Angelos, John, commander at Melnik, 156 Aksaray, battle (1256), 169–70 Angelos, John, governor of the Thrakesion ‛Alā’ al-Dīn Kayqubād I, Seljuk sultan, 45, 54, theme, 58 108 Angelos, John, megas primmikerios, 158 ‛Alā’ al-Dīn Kayqubād II, Seljuk sultan, 149 Anna, daughter of Alexios III Angelos, 19–20, Alanya (Kalonoros), 54, 108 24, 32, 34, 44 Albania, 129, 155, 165, 167, 175, 372 Anna, daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary Aldebrandinos, Latin lord of Attaleia, 53 and Maria Laskarina, 93 Alexander IV, pope, 40, 144, 162–63, 168, 347, Anna, daughter of Michael II Komnenos 350, 374–76 Doukas, 176 Alexander of Aphrodisias, 144 An-Nasir Yusuf, Ayyubid ruler of Syria, 140 Alexander, ancient Macedonian king, 77, 86, Annibaldi, Richard, Roman cardinal, 168–69, 125, 135, 157, 204, 209–10, 338 197, 350, 374 Alexandria, 384 Antalya. See Attaleia (Antalya) orthodox patriarchate, 73 Anthony, St., monastery in Nicaea, 44 Alexios I Grand Komnenos, founder of the Antioch state of Trebizond, 16, 236n16 Latin patriarchate, 138 Alexios I Komnenos, 18, 34, 43, 48 orthodox patriarchate, 73, 85, 87, 357–61 Alexios III Angelos, 15, 18–24, 26–27, 31, 44, Antioch on the Maeander, 31, 50, 54 71, 113, 121 Aornis, area in India, 214 Alexios IV Angelos, 20–22, 24 Aphthonios, 7 Alexios V Mourtzouphlos, 21–22, 26 Apollonias, Lake, 46, 150 Alfonso III, King of Aragon, 227 Apollonios of Tyana, 86, 192 Alfonso X, King of Castile, 135 Apulia, 42, 135–36, 138–39, 144, 334, 365 Alyates, Nikephoros, 161 Aquinas, Thomas, 343 Amastris, 26, 37, 49 Argyropoulos, patriarchal official, 354 430 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48071-0 — The Byzantine Hellene Dimiter Angelov Index More Information Index 431 Aristotle, 77–78, 81–83, 86, 107, 116, 125, 144, 347–48, 350, 353–54, 356–65, 367–69, 182–83, 185, 187, 194, 208, 213, 328, 382 378, 383–84, 386–88 Armenia, 17 Epitome of Logic, 78, 80, 82, 182, 306n13 kingdom of Cilician Armenia, 28, 32, 37, 94, Epitome of Physics,81–84, 187 360 Imperial Statue, 81, 85, 91, 119, 125, 336, 338 principality of Greater Armenia, 55 Bogomils, 205 Armenians, 17–18, 51, 205 Boilas, Eustathios, 17 Arnold Roger, Count of Pallars, 227 Boniface of Agliano, 140, 369 Arsenios, patriarch, 150–51, 162, 164, 167, 178, Boniface of Montferrat, 14, 24 215, 218, 342 Boniface, Marquis of Carreto, 140 Arta, 65 Boukellarion theme, 25 Artasir, son of Lashkari ibn Musa, 18 Boulgarophygon, 164 Ashraf Musa, son of the Ayyubid ruler of Syria Brescia, siege of (1238), 89 An-Nasir Yusuf, 140 Britain, 214 Asidenos, Sabbas, 27 Bulgaria, Bulgarians, 51, 96–97, 155, 164–67, Askania, Lake, 16, 43, 66, 153 174, 192, 207, 210, 335, 371–73 Assisi, 139 Astritzion, 48, 158 Caesarea (Kayseri), 53, 94, 149 Atramyttion, 25, 31, 48, 50, 59, 110, 112, 132, Capoccio, Peter, Roman cardinal, 136, 168–69, 156, 212, 366 212, 350, 374, 377 Attaleia (Antalya), 53–54, 92, 108, 170 Cappadocia, 53 Aulona, 176 Caspian Sea, 114 Autoreianos, Arsenios, patriarch. See Arsenios, Chabaron, Constantine, 155, 175 patriarch Chadenos, 177 Autoreianos, Michael, patriarch, 28, 243n106 Charioros, 59 Aybak, Mamluk sultan, 140 Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily and Naples, Azov Sea, 115 221–22 Chele, 221 Babouskomites, George, 103, 107 Chinardo, Philippe, 176 Bacon, Roger, 181 Chios, 25, 51, 59, 176 Baghdad, 171, 218 Chliara, 25, 50 Baldwin I, Latin emperor of Constantinople, Chomatenos Demetrios, archbishop of Ohrid, 63 14, 25 Chonai (Honaz), 27, 51, 53–54, 171, 174, Baldwin II, Latin emperor of Constantinople, 255n125 32, 64, 75, 89, 92, 96, 134, 138, 166, 220 Choniates, Michael, 27 Balsamon, imperial secretary, 103 Choniates, Niketas, 15, 21, 23, 25, 30, 43, 53, 165 Basilikos brothers, 114–15 Chormaghun, Mongol commander, 93 baths, 45–46, 106, 131 Christ Savior tou Kophou, monastery in Batu, khan of the Golden Horde, 93–94, 149 Nicaea, 29 Bayju, Mongol commander, 93–95, 169–70 Christ Who Is, monastery. See Emathia Bdin, 221 monastery of Christ Who Is near Ephesos Béla IV, Hungarian king, 33, 64, 73, 75, 93, 165 Christian Theology,8–9, 179, 193–94, 196–97, Bellegrada (Berat), 176 207, 226, 324–26, 330, 354 Berthold of Hohenburg, 128, 133, 139, 145, Christiani, Pablo, 385 207–8, 324–26, 328, 351–53, 355, 365, 369 Christopher, attendant of Theodore, 6, 112, Bithynia, 23, 37, 50, 124, 222 210, 263n9 Blachernae church, 39 Clement of Alexandria, 195 Blachernae Palace, 21, 220 Cleopas, Nicaean general of Cuman origin, Blemmydes, Nikephoros, 4, 9, 80–87, 91, 51–52, 164, 373 98–100, 102, 107, 112, 114, 116, 119, 122, Coimbra, 227 137, 139, 145, 150, 163, 176, 178, 183, 192, Conrad IV, King of Sicily, 139–41, 342, 369 195, 201, 203, 206–7, 209, 212, 215, Constantine of Orvieto, 163, 168, 207, 215, 342, 222–23, 256n2, 333, 336, 342, 344, 375 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48071-0 — The Byzantine Hellene Dimiter Angelov Index More Information 432 Index Constantine Tikh, Bulgarian king, 378, 385 Doukas, Isaac, sebastokrator and brother of Constantine, chamberlain (koubouklarios), John III Vatatzes, 58 112, 118, 145, 194, 198, 219, 285n66 Doukas, John, sebastokrator and brother of Constantine, katholikos of Armenia, 360 Isaac II and Alexios III Angelos, 15, 19, Constantinople, 39, 67, 70, 73, 79–80, 88–89, 24, 286n82 97, 113, 134, 138, 143, 150, 168, 206, Doukas, John, son of sebastokrator Isaac 214–16 Doukas, 58, 124 fall of (1204), 13–15, 20–22, 109, 205, 208, 228 doux, office, 49 reconquest of (1261), 217, 229 Dragotas, 96, 156, 373 siege of (1235–36), 74 Dräseke, Johannes, 224 siege of (1241), 91, 332 Drimys, John, 222 Constanza (Constanza-Anna), Nicaean Drudo, Franciscan minister of Burgundy, empress, daughter of Frederick II 137–38 Hohenstaufen and Bianca Lancia, 90–91, Dvin, 17 139–40, 226, 331, 334, 369 Dyrrachion, 135, 138, 159, 162, 167, 170, 172, Corinth, 188 175–76, 213, 343, 377 Cosmas and Damian, SS., 74, 145, 336–37, 345 Egypt, 55, 105, 140, 214 Crete, 14, 42 Eirenikos family, 71 crown estates, 103–4 Eirenikos, Nicholas, 71 Cumans, 51–52, 63, 73, 95, 97, 155, 164, 166, Eirenikos, Theodore, patriarch, 71, 243n106, 175, 218, 335, 373 267n63 Cyprus, 54 Elder Theodore (elder Theodore Laskaris). See Cyriac of Ancona, 157, 212 Theodore I Laskaris Elena, wife of Theodore II Laskaris, 72–75, 105, Dakibyze, 221 128–32, 179, 212, 336–37, 368 Damietta, siege (1218–19), 139 Elizabeth of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, 227 Dante, 168 Emathia monastery of Christ Who Is near David Grand Komnenos, 16, 26 Ephesos, 81, 223, 361, 364 David, Old Testament king, 33, 58, 62, 67, 77 Englishmen in Nicaea. See Varangian Guard David, orthodox patriarch of Antioch, 361 enkyklios paideia (“general” or secondary Debre (Debar), 175 education), 68–69, 71, 78–79, 107 Demetrios Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Ephesos, 47, 49–50, 80, 84, 87, 98–99, 105, 116 Thessalonica, 97, 333 Ephraim of Ainos, 223 Demetrios, St., monastery in Constantinople, epi ton anamneseon (“memorialist”), court 222 title, 99 Democritus, 198 epilepsy, 11, 147, 176, 224, 381–84 Demosthenes, 72 Epiros (Epiros–Thessalonica), state of, 15–16, Denizli, 55 35, 92, 213, 215, 335, 366 Derkos, 97 erotic fiction, 114–15 Develtos, 21 Erzincan (Keltzene), 54 Didymoteichon, 28, 34, 63, 159–60, 373 Erzurum (Theodosioupolis, Karin), 54, 93, 152, Diepold of Vohburg, 139 273n29, 274n36 Dionysios Periegetes, 214 ethnicity, 203 Diophantus, 81–82, 195 Euboea, 148 Disypatos, Manuel, metropolitan bishop of Euclid, 81–82, 208 Thessalonica, 168, 374 Eudokia, daughter of Alexios III Angelos, 19 Dokeianos, Theodore, 162, 375 Eudokia, daughter of John Angelos (probably Dominicans, 44, 46, 73, 80, 100, 144, 163, 168, the governor of the Thrakesion theme), 58 206, 375 Eudokia, daughter of Theodore I Laskaris, 23, Dorylaion, 53 32–33 Doukas family, 33–34, 206 Eudokia, daughter of Theodore II Laskaris, Doukas, Constantine, 22 wife of William Peter, Count of © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48071-0 — The Byzantine Hellene Dimiter Angelov Index More Information Index 433 Ventimiglia and Tende, and of Roger, Guneas the Arab, mythological figure and code Count of Pallars, 74, 221, 226–27 name, 134, 336 exile, imagery of, 14, 39–40 Güyük, Great Khan of the Mongols, 94 Explanation of the World, 4, 9, 118, 179, gynaikonitis, women’s quarters, 60 181–86, 189, 193–94, 198, 200, 226, 326, 329, 331, 338–42 Hadrian, 212 Hagiotheodorites family, 79 Fieschi, Opizzo, 138
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    READING BETWEEN THE LINES OF A BYZANTINE ‘PARAPHRASE’: (RE)DISCOVERING ISAAC KOMNENOS AND THE LETTER OF ARISTEAS Valeria Flavia Lovato Introduction: the illustrated Octateuchs and Isaac Komnenos In a recent study on the illuminated Octateuchs, Lowden has defined this group of luxurious manuscripts as a typically ‘Byzantine phenomenon’.1 The present paper focuses on one such manuscript, namely the Seraglio Octateuch, generally attributed to the patronage of the sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogen- netos, son of emperor Alexios I and brother of John II.2 More specifically, in what follows I will focus on the so-called paraphrase of the Letter of Aristeas,3 a unique feature of the Seraglio manuscript. This short text, meant as a sort of introduction to the whole codex, was most likely penned by Isaac Komnenos himself.4 The This article is part of a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (PostDoc. Mobility Grant number P400PH_180700). I would like to thank Tommaso Braccini and Aglae Pizzone for their comments on previous drafts. Special thanks are owed to Nancy Patterson Ševčenko and Michiel Op de Coul for allowing me to read their unpublished work. 1 J. Lowden, Illustrated Octateuch Manuscripts: A Byzantine Phenomenon, in: P. Mag- dalino – R. S. Nelson (eds), The Old Testament in Byzantium. Washington D.C. 2010, 107-152. 2 On Isaac Komnenos as the most likely commissioner of the Seraglio Octateuch see, most recently, K. Linardou, Imperial Impersonations: Disguised Portraits of a Komnenian Prince and his Father, in: A. Bucossi – A. Rodriguez Suarez (eds), John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium. In the Shadow of Father and Son.
  • The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and the Western Way of War the Komnenian Armies

    The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and the Western Way of War the Komnenian Armies

    Anistoriton Journal, vol. 11 (2008-2009) Viewpoints 1 The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and the Western Way of War The Komnenian Armies Byzantium. The word invokes to the modern imagination images of icons, palaces and peaceful Christianity rather than the militarism associated with its European counterparts during the age of the Byzantine Empire. Despite modern interpretations of the Empire, it was not without military dynamism throughout its 800-year hold on the East. During the “Second Golden Age” of Byzantium, this dominion experienced a level of strength and discipline in its army that was rarely countered before or after. This was largely due to the interest of the Komnenian emperors in creating a military culture and integrating foreign ideas into the Eastern Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire faced unique challenges not only because of the era in which they were a major world power but also for the geography of Byzantium. Like the Rome of earlier eras, the territory encompassed by Byzantium was broad in scope and encompassed a variety of peoples under one banner. There were two basic areas held by the empire – the Haemus and Anatolia, with outposts in Crete, the Crimea and southern Italy and Sicily (Willmott 4). By the time of the Komnenos dynasty, most of Anatolia had been lost in the battle of Manzikert. Manuel I would attempt to remedy that loss, considered significant to the control of the empire. Of this territory, the majority was arid or mountainous, creating difficulties for what was primarily an agricultural economy. This reliance on land-based products helped to bolster the reluctance for war in the eastern Roman Empire.