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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0198888694 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780198888697

Author:  Maximilian C. G. Lau 

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, the first English language study on John and his era, 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. John’s reign is one of contradictions, as his capital of New Rome/Constantinople was to fall to the armies of the Fourth Crusade just over sixty years after he died, and yet his descendants led vibrant successor states based in the lands that John reconquered. His reign lacks a dominant textual source, and so this history is related as much through personal letters, court literature, archaeology, and foreign accounts as through traditional historical narratives. 

Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143 1st Table of contents:

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

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