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  1  2,1 |               as an indication of his political wisdom? Did he see in Christianity
  2  2,1 |         merely a means of gaining his political aims? Or did he adopt Christianity
  3  2,1 |        conversion” influenced by both political motives and a spiritual
  4  2,1 |               in Gaul, in the form of political considerations which led
  5  2,1 |              is true, then the purely political theory in regard to Constantine’
  6  2,1 |             not have allowed his wide political schemes to depend upon one-tenth
  7  2,1 |            time was taking no part in political affairs.~ Duruy, the author
  8  2,1 |             of this, Duruy continued, political considerations were of primary
  9  2,1 |               minority and were of no political importance, would have meant
 10  2,1 |              not change his faith for political reasons, it must be admitted
 11  2,1 |             15] E. Stein maintained a political reason. The greatest significance
 12  2,1 |              toward Christianity, his political schemes were nevertheless
 13  2,2 |               analyzed thoroughly the political and economic position of
 14  2,2 |             the position of the city, political as well as economic and
 15  2,2 |      indefeasible achievements of the political and administrative genius
 16  2,2 |             Constantinople became the political, religious, economic, and
 17  2,2 |               governmental power. The political influences of the Hellenistic
 18  2,2 |           wishing to do away with the political menace of the large provinces,
 19  2,2 |              kept asunder not only by political differences, but by religious
 20  2,3 |             New Rome,” because of the political pre-eminence of the city
 21  2,3 |              power. Besides these two political parties, historians speak
 22  2,3 |           servants, are our rulers in political life? The Emperor should
 23  2,3 |           allies, conferred upon them political rights and honors, and endowed
 24  2,3 |              in his empire was to his political plans. In 409 he formally
 25  2,3 |     reflecting also some contemporary political events.~ In external struggles
 26  2,5 |          Chalcedon were also of great political significance in Byzantine
 27  2,5 |             the throne.[141] Thus the political breach between the eastern
 28  2,5 |              the capital. His aim was political; he wished to depose the
 29  2,5 |         religious problems and in the political events, which were always
 30  2,5 |            point of view but from the political point of view as well. By
 31  2,5 |            Isaurians wanted to attain political supremacy, while the Copts
 32  2,5 |            art.~ Having been made the political center of the Empire, Constantinople
 33  3,1 |          Christianity as an essential political, and perhaps economic, advantage.~
 34  3,4 |         second-rate ruined city of no political importance. The pope, however,
 35  3,4 |            future complications, both political and economic.~ The defensive
 36  3,4 |               Empire, a fact of great political and economic importance.[
 37  3,6 |         formula of Justinian’s entire political career. Basing his conceptions
 38  3,6 |          historians who emphasize the political side of Justinian’s activities
 39  3,6 |             desire to make secure his political power, to strengthen the
 40  3,6 |         dangerous to him, even from a political point of view, for they
 41  3,7 |               with them were of great political importance and involved
 42  3,8 |                gradually changed into political parties expressing various
 43  3,8 |            parties expressing various political, social, or religious tendencies.
 44  3,8 |            demes represented not only political and religious tendencies,
 45  3,12|             weakening of the imperial political authority in Italy.~ ~
 46  3,16| ecclesiastical, but. rather about the political, geography of the Empire,
 47  3,16|            source for determining the political position of the Empire at
 48  3,16|           also “of great value to the political and cultural history of
 49  3,16|               period of Ravenna, when political, economic, intellectual,
 50  4,1 |               state soon to cease its political existence because of the
 51  4,1 |           today.~ From a cultural and political point of view the most important
 52  4,1 |        advance there was not a single political organization within the
 53  4,1 |              and later the chief of a political community.~ Muhammed was
 54  4,1 |             lay the foundations for a political state on a religious basis.
 55  4,1 |      ceremonies, and strengthened his political position, he set out to
 56  4,1 |              Arabia persisted under a political and religious organization
 57  4,1 |              Muhammed was neither the political ruler of all Arabia nor
 58  4,1 |              rise of Muhammed and the political movement which he initiated.[
 59  4,1 |           into the background for the political events of the period. “Islam
 60  4,1 |         period. “Islam changed into a political force, because only as such
 61  4,1 |            the Mardaites was a purely political one.~ In the sixties of
 62  4,1 |          definite tax and the assured political loyalty of the Christians
 63  4,1 |    sensitivity of the Emperor, but by political conditions.~ Meanwhile,
 64  4,2 |    Monophysitic question had lost its political importance, and the decree
 65  4,2 |             the movement had lost its political importance and stood in
 66  4,3 |            Monotheletism had lost its political significance, it still continued
 67  4,4 |          period must be sought in the political conditions of the Empire,
 68  5,1 |            position of influence upon political affairs. But Theodora’s
 69  5,1 |               affairs. But Theodora’s political influence depended entirely
 70  5,2 |             above all to defend their political existence against the Byzantine
 71  5,2 |              even participated in the political life of the Empire. By the
 72  5,3 |        earlier themes was dictated by political considerations. By his own
 73  5,4 |               the causes were chiefly political. It was thought that Leo
 74  5,4 |           there was also a social and political reform. It was the intention
 75  5,4 |       remarkable attempt at a social, political, and religious revolution.
 76  5,4 |        prompted by both religious and political considerations, with a decided
 77  5,4 |              the realization of their political ideals “surrounded by the
 78  5,4 |           developed parallel with the political changes, but had a history
 79  5,8 |              overwhelming majority of political uprisings in the Byzantine
 80  5,8 |             Parallel with the gradual political decline and weakening of
 81  5,8 |              the background. In their political ideas the caliphs of the
 82  5,8 |             of much interest from the political and religious, as well as
 83  5,8 |         districts, causing thus great political and economic disturbances
 84  5,8 |           Gulf of Tarentum.[147]~ The political position in Italy in the
 85  5,8 |      Christianity was prompted by the political situation in Bulgaria, which
 86  5,8 |              believed that Michael’s “political program consisted of an
 87  5,8 |           images in the name of their political aims and ambitions. Their
 88  5,8 |         accomplishments of their wise political activities. The fight with
 89  5,8 |         disturbances and weakened the political strength of the Empire.
 90  5,8 |     monasteries is to be explained by political motives. It is very difficult
 91  5,8 |       interesting facts regarding the political and church history of the
 92  6   |            most brilliant time of the political existence of the Empire.
 93  6   |        entered into closer religious, political, commercial, and cultural
 94  6,2 |       According to one historian, the political division of Armenia “into
 95  6,3 |               and education. His wide political schemes were to be realized
 96  6,3 |              with the collapse of the political might of Bulgaria, the Magyars
 97  6,6 |           Rome. In striving to form a political alliance with the Eastern
 98  6,7 |                            Social and political developments~ ~Church affairs.~
 99  6,7 |             Leo’s fear of the growing political influence of the patriarch
100  6,7 |       extended also into the field of political interests. The Cluniac movement,
101  6,7 |              that he had also a sound political basis for intervening in
102  6,7 |            patriarchates. But for the political life of the Empire this
103  6,7 |   possibilities of any lasting future political understanding between the
104  6,8 |            Egypt had long since led a political life independent of the
105  6,8 |            was gradually yielding its political as well as its economic
106  6,8 |              Comneni a very difficult political heritage.~ ~Education, learning,
107  6,8 |              a dominating part in the political and economic life of the
108  6,8 |             an impressive idea of the political, diplomatic, and economic
109  6,8 |         materials on the internal and political history of the tenth century.~
110  6,8 |              related to the important political events of his time, such
111  7,1 |             Andronicus was accused of political treason and plotting against
112  7,1 |              one of the causes of the political conflicts between the Eastern
113  7,1 |             for the national Slavonic political opposition against the severe
114  7,1 |          thanks to their military and political relations, came to realize
115  7,1 |        excellent knowledge of all the political relations of eastern Europe
116  7,1 |           greatest importance for the political and economic situation of
117  7,1 |              Land were concerned, the political power of the caliph in that
118  7,1 |          England in 1066. Moreover, a political and economic movement occurred
119  7,1 |            religious, but also from a political and economic point of view.~
120  7,1 |            crusade. For Byzantium the political problem of saving the Empire
121  7,1 |              supposed to be a sort of political will to his son and heir,
122  7,1 |          crusade a purely worldly and political element which was in contradiction
123  7,1 |            only schismatics, but also political antagonists, who later on
124  7,1 |           east, created a complicated political situation. Byzantium, satisfied
125  7,1 |             Tripoli, which became new political foes of Byzantium. The Empire’
126  7,1 |         scholar, “ceased to be a mere political movement; it had now received
127  7,1 |               goal progress along the political paths entered upon by his
128  7,1 |         destroyed Manuel’s dreams and political speculations. The Second
129  7,1 |           looked with distrust on the political strengthening of their neighbors.
130  7,1 |            and following only his own political aims suddenly seized the
131  7,1 |              receding and the worldly political motives showed themselves
132  7,1 |               the Near East.~ But the political results of the visit of
133  7,1 |               the conclusion that the political isolation of the Empire
134  7,1 |           single terrible enemy whose political interests could not be reconciled
135  7,2 |      lavishness, the same lack of any political talent or interest in government,
136  7,2 |            Saladin’s enemy, a Muslim. Political combinations and concerns
137  7,2 |       presented itself as exclusively political. “What would a spiritual
138  7,2 |            bought at the price of the political liquidation of the Papacy!”
139  7,2 |               the complete triumph of political ideas in crusading enterprises,
140  7,3 |         Venice nor of any complicated political intrigue.~ In 1861, for
141  7,3 |        Angelus. In Germany a skillful political intrigue had been woven
142  7,3 |        complicated and long conceived political intrigue “Philip was left
143  7,3 |           Crusade in the light of the political, economic, and religious
144  7,3 |            her to the pinnacle of her political and economic power. It was
145  7,3 |          grounds, possessed no strong political power; moreover, in church
146  7,3 |             Latins in the East had no political unity, they had no religious
147  7,3 |           Latin Empire, despite their political subjugation by the Latins,
148  7,3 |         forever the significance of a political world power. Politically,
149  7,4 |               pope, could prevent the political danger threatening the East
150  7,4 |   nevertheless, under the pressure of political reasons, they made some
151  7,4 |          explained by purely external political reasons.~ In the most terrible
152  7,4 |     negotiations for union was purely political. The German historian Norden
153  7,4 |                the pope was guided by political expediency, desiring, of
154  7,4 |       landowners; even in the case of political plots capital punishment
155  7,4 |           which formed the social and political platform of the Empire was
156  7,4 |            These Muses were a kind of political will, concerned not only
157  7,4 |           valuable information on the political, social, and literary conditions
158  7,4 |            thoughtful observer of the political life of his epoch, an educated
159  7,4 |             used for the study of the political and cultural history of
160  7,4 |         ιστορων) written in so-called political, or popular meter, a poetical
161  7,4 |              Odyssey, written also in political verse; it is dedicated to
162  7,4 |             of the twelfth century in political verses, and dedicated to
163  7,4 |               the twelfth century the political and military fortune of
164  8,1 |              the problem of where the political, economic, national, religious,
165  8,2 |             its own special interest, political as well as cultural and
166  8,2 |             the very beginning of its political existence, undermined its
167  8,2 |              roads, gave it a special political importance. Nicaea had achieved
168  8,7 |             must have brought about a political rupture between Thessalonica
169  8,9 |    Simultaneously with this change of political combinations, Asen took
170  8,10|              a nature as Frederick’s, political plans and motives were predominant
171  8,10|            clear that for Frederick’s political combinations, the question
172  8,11|           emphasize the fact that the political power and importance of
173  8,13|               displayed the energetic political activity which made him
174  8,13|            the importance of external political relations, he turned his
175  8,14|       churches in connection with the political changes which had taken
176  8,14|               At the beginning of the political existence of the Latin Empire
177  8,14|            promised crusade. Secular, political, and international interests
178  8,14|             he was influenced only by political speculations. First, he
179  8,14|              closely tied up with the political concerns of the Emperor;
180  8,14|             and was successful in his political enterprises, had come to
181  8,16|             the center for the future political unification of the Hellenes,
182  8,16|        ecclesiastical history and the political and social conditions of
183  8,16|           also of great interest. His political treatise The Imperial Statue (
184  8,16|             to be such a man from his political treatise.”[160]~ Of course,
185  8,16|             way for the spiritual and political regeneration of the state
186  8,16|     literature.~ Composed in popular (political) verses on the occasion
187  8,16|               love story” composed in political verses, the story of Callimachos
188  8,16|            took an active part in the political, public, and ecclesiastical
189  8,16|        conquered, also, perhaps, as a political leader, and finally as the
190  8,16|               of culture, which, amid political division, violent international
191  8,17|       dominated: that the complicated political, social, and economic phenomenon
192  8,17|           aspect and failed to attain political significance. Nevertheless,
193  8,17|             the territorial aspect of political relations and by the political
194  8,17|        political relations and by the political aspect of territorial relations.”[
195  8,17|       exkuseia is to be sought in the political disorder which broke out
196  8,17|              acuteness.”[232]~ In the political life of the Empire a very
197  8,17|             Empire but also a serious political danger to the reigning dynasty,
198  8,17|              processes in the social, political, and economic aspects may
199  9,2 |               But if in the sphere of political international life Byzantium
200  9,2 |            peoples pursuing their own political aims, Serbs, Bulgars, and
201  9,3 |             as a dim precursor of the political and civil autonomy of the
202  9,3 |           most important place in the political, economic, and commercial
203  9,3 |              the early history of the political unification of Italy, always
204  9,3 |              Deadly rivalry, not only political but also religious, existed
205  9,4 |               the history of medieval political life.”[92] Of course, the
206  9,4 |                having carried out his political task, he abdicated and ended
207  9,4 |             Genoa. In connection with political conditions, he then restored
208  9,4 |          significance, acquired great political importance in the Empire.”[
209  9,5 |               ratify and sanctify the political revolution achieved by Dushan:
210  9,6 |               invasions; finally, the political leaders of various states
211  9,6 |               a powerful economic and political position and was a sort
212  9,7 |          beginning of the fifteenth a political and cultural center of reviving
213  9,7 |             Plethon on the urgency of political and social reform for the
214  9,11|              Rome would bring about a political submission also even if
215  9,11|         Palaeologus his prelates with political arguments.”[241]~ One of
216  9,12|          involved at various times in political troubles and disorders and
217  9,12|             the reputation of a party political as well as ecclesiastical.
218  9,12|            ventured openly to provoke political punishment, but it often
219  9,12|             the side of Lascaris in a political plot against the Emperor,
220  9,12|     fourteenth century, pursuing some political aims which have not yet
221  9,12|    interesting attempt to expound the political ideology of the zealots,
222  9,13|          church were entangled in the political complications of the strife
223  9,13|              of the Hesychasts in the political struggle of their epoch
224  9,13|                but the leaders of the political parties, such as Palaeologus
225  9,13|         problems. But the threatening political situation, such as the ever
226  9,15|             in 1439. At this time the political atmosphere in the Christian
227  9,15|             union would result in the political supremacy of the West over
228  9,15|     apprehension was justified by the political plans of Alfonso the Magnanimous
229  9,17|                                       Political and social conditions in
230  9,17|            revolt of Thessalonica the political element, that is, the struggle
231  9,17|             was intermingled with the political interests of that time,
232  9,17|              taxes, and the permanent political and economic rivalry between
233  9,18|      literature, science, and art~ In political and economic respects the
234  9,18|              word, at the time of its political and economic decay, Hellenism
235  9,18|             distressing events of the political life of the Empire, sought
236  9,18|           renaissance.~ The important political events of the fifteenth
237  9,18|          interesting material for the political, religious, and social conditions
238  9,18|              393] On the basis of his political opinions, which he sometimes
239  9,18|             nor aristocracy, he had a political ideal of his own, a sort
240  9,18|              the history of Byzantine political theory has not yet been
241  9,18|            shows that “the history of political ideas in Byzantium is not
242  9,18|         statement was not a practical political theory but an interpretation
243  9,18|             allegorical poem in 3062 “political” verses, entitled Concerning
244  9,18|              in popular Greek and in “political” meter. The Greek text does
245  9,18|            Achilleid, also written in political meter. In spite of the classical
246  9,18|              the general economic and political decay of the Empire under
247  9,18|               the difficulties of the political situation the Nicaean emperors
248  9,19|            Emperor, came on a special political mission to Italy, where