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Isaac I
Isaac I (Isaac Comnenus) , c.1005-1061, Byzantine emperor (1057-59), first of the Comnenus dynasty. Proclaimed emperor by the army, he deposed Michael VI, who had succeeded Theodora (reigned 1055-56), and sent him into a monastery. Although at first received with enthusiasm at Constantinople, Isaac soon lost popularity with the aristocracy and, because of his confiscation of ecclesiastic property, with the church and the patriarch Cerularius, who was exiled. In 1059, after an unsuccessful campaign against the Pechenegs, Isaac abdicated for reasons of health and retired to a monastery. Constantine X (Constantine Ducas) was his successor. After the reigns of Romanus IV , Michael VII, and Nicephorus III, the Comnenus dynasty returned to the throne with Isaac's nephew Alexius I .
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Letter from the Black Sea: desperately seeking Dulcinea. (Turkish coastal cities)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/21/1996; 700+ words
; ...heyday of the empire of Trebizond, established by the Byzantine Comnenus family after Constantinople had fallen to Latin crusaders in...longer than Constantinople, Sultan Mehmet II executed the Comnenus males, but spared their women. One of the princesses, known...
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Soldiers of the Second Crusade leave from Devon. (Devon, England)(Freeze Frame: May 19th, 1147)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/1997; 700+ words
; ...Zengi and the deaths of the capable Byzantine emperor, John Comnenus, and Fulk of Anjou, the king of Jerusalem, left the Christian...motives and hidden agendas. The new Byzantine emperor, Manuel Comnenus, was insistent that all crusader conquests should be made...
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Diplomacy gone to seed: a history of Byzantine foreign relations, A.D. 1047-57.
Magazine article from: International Journal of Kurdish Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...successive emperors beginning with Constantine IX, under whom he was state secretary and vestarches. Under the Emperor Isaac I Comnenus (1057-59), he would be named proedrus or President of the Senate. Scylitzes, a native of the Thracesian theme in western...
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Finding new Turkish delights on yet another Istanbul visit.
Magazine article from: International Travel News; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...converted into a mosque in 1453. One example of this Byzantine artwork portrays the Blessed Virgin between Emperor John II Comnenus and Empress Irene. Another shows Christ flanked by Empress Zoe and her husband, Constantine IX. The Yerebatan Saray, or...
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FOCUS THE SACKING OF JERUSALEM: The cannibal crusaders On Thursday, the 900th anniversary of the sacking of Jerusalem, a group of Christians will apologise for the Crusades. There is certainly plenty to apologise for - 40,000 Muslims and 6,000 Jews were slaughtered in a bloodbath that disgusted even some of the crusaders, reports Alasdair Palmer
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...he seemed to have no idea that thousands would take him at his word. The Pope was himself responding to a plea by Alexius Comnenus, the emperor of Byzantium, for reinforcements in his battle against Muslim forces which had gobbled up large parts of his...
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 5/3/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...humiliation, and death. It begins on a somewhat hopeful note in the late eleventh century, with the rise to power of Alexius I Comnenus a decade after the resounding defeat of Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert. Alexius is probably...
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Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...on Syriac and Armenian sources concerning the conversion of the Mongols to Islam and Craig Hanson's discussion of Manuel I Comnenus's theological intervention regarding the Muslim view of the deity. Kenneth B.Wolf updates his earlier work on the Cordoban...
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Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...during a crucial century and a half in the Middle Ages: the period begins with the accession of the great emperor Alexius I Comnenus (1081) and closes with the recapture of Constantinople from the Latins in 1261.The title "Church and Society indicates...
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...did much more because he signed a more promising Union. Can the reader profit from a sentence such as: `What would Alexius Comnenus have done or his son John II in the place of John V Paleologus? (p.348). If the author wants to point to a distinguished...
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The Perfection of Solitude. Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...became more controlled and structured. This contrasted with the Byzantine houses which, although heavily supported by Manuel Comnenus for political reasons, remained autocephalous. As Jotischky concludes, a monastic purist like St. Bernard might see the...
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Comnenus, Alexius
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Comnenus, Alexius (1048–1118) Byzantine emperor (1081–...politics were dominated by a military aristocracy and court officials; Alexius Comnenus was an army general who forged an alliance between his military supporters...
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Comnenus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Comnenus , family name of several Byzantine emperors— Isaac I , Alexius I , John II , Manuel I , Alexius II , and Andronicus I...
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Comnena and Comnenus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Comnena and Comnenus, see Anna Comnena .
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empire of Trebizond
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...by two members of the former imperial Comnenus family, David and his brother Alexius...Trebizond, who took the titles of Grand Comnenus and emperor, which were assumed by all...the empire was the conquest of David Comnenus, who soon lost his dominions to Nicaea...
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Rulers of the Byzantine Empire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...56 Michael VI Stratioticus 1056-57 Isaac I Comnenus 1057-59 Constantine X Ducas 1059-67 Michael...Nicephorus III Botaniates 1078-81 Alexius I Comnenus 1081-1118 John II Comnenus 1118-43 Manuel I Comnenus 1143-80 Alexius...
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