The history of the longest imperial Roman dynasty, in full.
To celebrate the 942nd birthday of Anna Komnene, I gather all the historical content I have made about the Komnenian Dynasty, and recorded new ones, about the origin, and afterlife of the dynasty, and a 20 minute survey of Roman law in the Komnenian era, both in the Latin West and Roman East, canon and civil law, focusing on the reign of Ioannes II the Good.

Table of Contents:
4:37 Chapter 0: Origins
9:18 Chapter 1: Isaakios I
13:31 Chapter 2: Alexios I
34:40 Chapter 2.5: Anna Komnene
49:56 Chapter 3: Ioannes II
1:05:21 Chapter 3.5: Komnenian Roman Law
1:24:40 Chapter 4: Manuel I
1:39:54 Chapter 5: Myriokephalon-1204
Empire of Trebizond:
1:59:52 Chapter 6: Megaloi Komnenoi 1185-1282
2:29:33 Chapter 7: Megaloi Komnenoi 1282-1330
2:58:00 Chapter 8: Megaloi Komnenoi 1330-1350
3:29:30 Chapter 9: Megaloi Komnenoi 1350-1390
4:00:02 Chapter 10: Megaloi Komnenoi 1390-1460
4:35:10 Epilogue: Fall of Trebizond, the afterlife of the Komnenoi

Primary sources:
– Ioannes Skylitzes, Synopsis Historion, translated by John Wortley
– Chronographia of Michael Psellos, translated by E. R. A. Sewter
– The Alexiad, by Anna Komnene translated by Elizabeth Dawes
– Funeral Oration for Anna by Georgios Tornikes (Georges et Demetrios Tornikès Lettres et Discours edited by Jean Darrouzès)
– The Annals of Niketas Choniates, translated by Harry J. Magoulias
– The History of Ioannes Kinnamos, translated by Charles M. Brand
– Ecloga Basilicorum (Burgmann edition)
– The Corpus Iuris Civilis (Mommsen edition)
– The Capture of Thessaloniki by Eustathios of Thessaloniki, translated by John R. Melville Jones
– Narrative of the coup of John the Fat by Nikolaos Mesarites, translated by Michael Angold
– The History of George Akropolites, translated by Ruth Macrides
– The Chronicle of Michael Panaretos, translated by Scott Kennedy
– The Hagiographic Dossier of Saint Eugenius of Trebizond in Codex Athous Dionysiou 154 edited by J. O. Rosenqvist
– Κωνσταντίνου του πρωτονοταρίου και πρωτοβεστιαρίου του Λουκίτου επιτάφιον εις τον εν βασιλεύσιν αοίδιμον εκείνον και τρισμακάριστον κύριον Αλέξιον τον Κομνηνόν, Παπαδόπουλος Κεραμεύς, Α., Ανάλεκτα Ιεροσολυμιτικής Σταχυολογίας Ι, St. Petersburg 1891
– Loukites’ Horoscope in An Almanac for Trebizond for the Year 1336 by Raymond Mercier)
– Andreas Libadenos, Periegesis, in Παρανικας, Μ. (1874), Συμβολη εἰς την του Ποντου ἱστοριαν, Ἀνδρεου Λιβαδηνου περιηγησις.
– Nikephoros Gregoras, Romaike Historia, translated to Latin in Schopen, L. and Bekker, I. (1829-1830). Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, Bonn, ii.
– Testament of Gerasimos for the Small Monastery of St. Euthymios in Jerusalem, translated by George T. Dennis
– Bessarion’s Encomium on Trebizond, translated by Scott Kennedy
– Relevant accounts to Trebizond in Johannes Schiltberger, Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Pero Tafur, and various medieval Italian documents, on the Fall of Trebizond in Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Michael Kritoboulos of Imbros, Georgios Sphrantzes, other post-Byzantine chronicles, etc…

Main Secondary:
– Varzos, Konstantinos (1984). Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών
– Alexios I Komnenos (Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations), edited by Margaret Mullett and Dion Smythe
– A History of the Crusades (3 Vols) by Steven Runciman
– John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium : In the Shadow of Father and Son by Alessandra Bucossi and Alex Rodriguez Suarez
– Maximilian C. G. Lau – Emperor John II Komnenos. Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143
– The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 by Paul Magdalino
– Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier by Paul Stephenson
– The History of Greece from its conquest by the Crusaders to its conquest by the Turks and of the Empire of Trebizond by George Finlay
– Σαββίδης, Α. (2009). Ιστορία της αυτοκρατορίας των μεγάλων Κομνηνών της Τραπεζούντας (1204-1461)
– O βυζαντινός Πόντος-Η Αυτοκρατορία της Τραπεζούντας, 1204-1461. Ο χώρος, οι άνθρωποι, η οικονομία by V. Ch. Lymperopoulos
– Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire by William Miller
– Karpov, S. История Трапезундской империи, Серия Византийская библиотека
– Byzantine Monuments and Topography of Pontos by Anthony Bryer and David Winfield

Music:
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Andreas Waldetoft – Komnenos is the basic melody. Most other songs are epic historical music by @faryafaraji and @Dimitrios_Dallas , Orthodox chants, or Greek folk music.

Everything about the Komnenoi: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2YxtwzOv6rufaHn-5yus_-9dwdEgyZ79
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