Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introducing Isaac Komnenos / Valeria Flavia Lovato
Ties of blood, bids for power: usurpation attempts during the reign of John II Komnenos / Angeliki Papageorgiou
Isaac in exile: down and out in Constantinople and Jerusalem? / Maximilian Lau
From Christ the Saviour to the Mother of God 'Saviour of the World': the sebastokrator Isaac and his place within the first Purple-born generation of the Komnenoi / Vlada Stanković
The sebastokrator Isaac at home / Paul Magdalino
Change and innovation in twelfth-century Byzantium: the case of hair and hairstyles / Alex Rodriguez Suarez
Komnenian book culture: tracing tastes, mapping networks, unravelling self-(re)presentation / Kallirroe Linardou
Notes on the construction of Isaac Komnenos's imperial profile by Theodoros Prodromos / Marina Loukaki
The dignity of kingship asserted: Isaac's 'political' notes on the Iliad / Filippomaria Pontani
Isaac Komnenos and the scholarship of a learned prince / André-Louis Rey
It runs in the family: Proclus, pronoia and the Komnenoi / Aglae Pizzone
Isaac Komnenos and the Letter of Aristeas: a Byzantine Ptolemy between Homer, Aristotle and the Bible / Valeria Flavia Lovato
Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos as a founder: philosophical implications in architectural patronage / Giulia Troncarelli
A 'barren and senseless shoot', a 'flawless ally' and an 'enkolpion of pearls': Isaac at Kosmosoteira / Margaret Mullett