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, 2023 Abstract John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving it in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess to win his father an alliance as a teenager, and leading his own campaigns as his father died, it was left ...
Maximilian Lau
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Narratives of John II Komnenos’ wars: comparing Byzantine and modern approaches Ioannis Stouraitis
, 2016 Alex Suarez
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Two Epigrams on an Icon of the Theotokos Adorned by the Emperor John II Komnenos (Dossier)
, 2022 This dossier includes two epigrams, written by Nicholas Kallikles on behalf of the emperor John II Komnenos (r.1118–43), both intended to accompany a re-adorned icon of (possibly) the Virgin Hodegetria. These two epigrams on Marian icons indicate the importance of the imperial cult of the Theotokos in Komnenian Constantinople and its ideological ...
Foteini Spingou
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The Power of Poetry – Portraying the Expansion of the Empire under John II Komnenos
, 2016 Maximilian Lau +2 more
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Coinage, numismatic circulation and monetary policy under John II Komnenos (1118–1143)
, 2016 When the emperor of Nicaea, John III Vatatzes (1222-54), decided sometime in the late 1220s to resume the minting of gold coinage that had been suspended since 1204, he selected as his prototype the hyperpyron of his namesake, the twelfthcentury emperor, John II Komnenos (1118-43) (Figure 12.1).1 Vatatzes closely imitated not only the iconography of
Παγώνα Παπαδοπούλου
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The Wars of John II Komnenos and the Decline of Byzantium in the East
Michael Decker
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