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  1  2,1 |           Galerius and proclaimed as emperor Maxentius, the son of the
  2  2,1 |           feeling on the part of the Emperor.~ Basing his arguments on
  3  2,1 |              is to the honor of this Emperor that he made good his claim
  4  2,1 |           This work relates that the emperor himself told and confirmed
  5  2,1 |            As soon as dawn broke the Emperor communicated to his friends
  6  2,1 |      destruction of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus in 70 A.D., and the
  7  2,1 |              during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the second century
  8  2,2 |         Licinius and had become sole Emperor, arrived in 324 at Nicomedia,
  9  2,2 |            the dogmatic dispute, the Emperor sent a letter to Bishop
 10  2,2 |     thoroughly, and explained to the Emperor on his return the full significance
 11  2,2 |           was the Arian dispute. The Emperor presided at the council
 12  2,2 |            in favor of Arianism; the Emperor was educated in the West
 13  2,2 |             for the Roman state. The Emperor set out personally to the
 14  2,2 |      Christian legend tells that the Emperor, with spear in his hand,
 15  2,2 |         power. Suetonius said of the emperor of the first century, Caligula,
 16  2,2 |        according to the sources, the emperor of the first half of the
 17  2,2 |            it is well known that the emperor of the second half of the
 18  2,2 |            Everything concerning the Emperor was considered sacred—his
 19  2,2 |             of the election of a new emperor. The first two Augusti were
 20  2,2 |             power, Diocletian, as an emperor, had a decided advantage.
 21  2,2 |          dependent directly upon the emperor. Formerly, the provinces
 22  2,2 |              the latter incurred the Emperor’s suspicions and was assassinated
 23  2,2 |          West (Spain), was the first emperor of the dynasty which occupied
 24  2,2 |        Marcian of Thrace, who became emperor (450-57). Thus in 450 A.D.
 25  2,2 |         military tribune, was chosen emperor. Ariadne, the daughter of
 26  2,2 |              his grandfather, became emperor (474) at the age of six.
 27  2,2 |          Albania). He was proclaimed emperor in 491 and ruled as Anastasius
 28  2,2 |             mourn the death of their emperor. The pagans rejoiced because
 29  2,2 |              the presence of the new Emperor Julian in the Church of
 30  2,2 |         Senate enrolled the deceased emperor among the gods.~ ~Julian
 31  2,2 |             Julian was recognized as Emperor throughout the Empire. The
 32  2,2 |    persecution instigated by the new Emperor.~ Julian for a long time
 33  2,2 |            by a child approached the Emperor and publicly called him
 34  2,2 |         church. For this purpose the Emperor decided to borrow many elements
 35  2,2 |           even among the pagans. The Emperor himself took an active part
 36  2,2 |              directed toward another emperor, the philosopher Marcus
 37  2,2 |              of Julian, and then the Emperor would say, in the words
 38  2,2 |           was to be submitted to the Emperor for approval. The latter
 39  2,2 |         paganistic tendencies of the Emperor himself. In this order Julian
 40  2,2 |            naively rejoiced that the Emperor made it more difficult for
 41  2,2 |      official reception accorded the Emperor at Antioch there was felt,
 42  2,2 |           sympathies of the visiting Emperor. Julian told the story of
 43  2,2 |             was the version that the Emperor was killed by the Christians.
 44  2,2 |          well-known legend “that the Emperor threw a handful of his own
 45  2,2 |             gathered about the dying Emperor in his tent and Julian addressed
 46  2,2 |          philosophical calmness, the Emperor presented a defense of his
 47  2,2 |          humiliating to mourn for an emperor who was just united to heaven
 48  2,2 |               The army proclaimed as emperor the head of the court guards,
 49  2,2 |          Christian writers named the Emperor “dragon,” “Nebuchadnezzar,” “
 50  2,2 |        Another biographer said, “The Emperor Julian seems as a fugitive
 51  2,3 |             an Arian, remarked: “The Emperor Jovian restored the churches
 52  2,3 |              that he was a Christian emperor by a number of measures;
 53  2,3 |         efforts of the father of the Emperor, also named Theodosius,
 54  2,3 |          keep on good terms with the Emperor. Nectarius became president
 55  2,3 |             mercy to sex or age; the Emperor’s orders were executed by
 56  2,3 |        guilty of offense against the Emperor and religion and liable
 57  2,3 |           Symmachus, was sent to the Emperor with a plea for the restoration
 58  2,3 |            begged mercy of the young Emperor (Valentinian II) for the
 59  2,3 |            half of that century. The Emperor Gordian was forced to pay
 60  2,3 |            Macedonia and Thrace. The Emperor Decius marched against them
 61  2,3 |      Visigoths agreed to furnish the Emperor with 40,000 soldiers. There
 62  2,3 |             obey all commands of the Emperor just as his subjects did.
 63  2,3 |           delegation was sent to the Emperor to state the case of the
 64  2,3 |     Constantinople. At that time the Emperor Valens was carrying on a
 65  2,3 |          Empire; Arcadius became the emperor of the eastern part, and
 66  2,3 |          greatest influence upon the Emperor. The rapid rise of this
 67  2,3 |       against many difficulties. The Emperor Arcadius apparently was
 68  2,3 |          address of Synesius on “The Emperor’s Power,” or, as it is sometimes
 69  2,3 |       Constantinople to petition the Emperor for the remission of the
 70  2,3 |               Synesius cautioned the Emperor:~ ~The least pretext will
 71  2,3 |        rulers in political life? The Emperor should purify the troops
 72  2,3 |           They then presented to the Emperor a demand that Eutropius
 73  2,3 |            Goths. They compelled the Emperor to bring Eutropius back
 74  2,3 |             Gaïnas demanded that the Emperor allow the Arian Goths to
 75  2,3 |             became reconciled to the Emperor’s refusal, however, and
 76  2,3 |           number of his enemies. The Emperor himself soon fell under
 77  2,3 |         beloved Patriarch forced the Emperor to recall him from exile.
 78  2,3 |        Middle Ages. The pope and the Emperor of the West, Honorius, had
 79  2,3 |              as a weak and ill-fated emperor. One of the most influential
 80  2,3 |      relations were established, the Emperor was forced to pay them a
 81  2,4 |          eloquence, he addressed the Emperor immediately after his consecration: “
 82  2,4 |              and Mesopotamia and the Emperor ordered the administration
 83  2,4 |     monastery in Constantinople. The Emperor sided with Dioscorus, whom
 84  2,4 |             Dioscorus then urged the Emperor to call a council in the
 85  2,4 |             of the new doctrine. The Emperor ratified the decisions of
 86  2,4 |        University indicates that the Emperor was beginning to see that
 87  2,4 |          commission appointed by the Emperor produced, after eight years’
 88  2,4 |             who was later proclaimed Emperor. Marcian was a very capable
 89  2,4 |              rank in the Empire. The Emperor decided to free himself
 90  2,5 |           correspondence between the Emperor and the pope, was also of
 91  2,5 |            his son, Zeno became sole emperor (474-91). His accession
 92  2,5 |             deposed the last western emperor, the young Romulus Augustulus,
 93  2,5 |             Italy needed no separate emperor and that Zeno might be the
 94  2,5 |             there was again only one emperor in the Empire, namely Zeno,
 95  2,5 |            Anastasius was crowned as emperor only after he had signed
 96  2,5 |             plotting against the new Emperor, Anastasius acted with dispatch.
 97  2,5 |             this case the Byzantine, emperor. Quite naturally, the distant
 98  2,5 |              looked upon the eastern emperor as the bearer of supreme
 99  2,5 |           relations of the Byzantine emperor with the Germanic kingdom
100  2,5 |         Monophysitic leanings of the Emperor aroused great confusion
101  2,5 |          about the deposition of the Emperor.~ This religious policy
102  2,5 |              he wished to depose the Emperor. But to the world he announced
103  2,5 |              to God and praising the emperor, to the church of St. Sergius
104  2,5 |              intimate friends of the Emperor. Eusebius wrote many theological
105  2,5 |          represented as a God-chosen emperor endowed with the gift of
106  2,5 |              during the reign o£ the Emperor Anastasius, but for a long
107  2,5 |             Synesius of Cyrene.~ The Emperor Julian was an extremely
108  2,5 |           sudden death of this young emperor prevented the full development
109  2,5 |              in Egypt erected by the Emperor Arcadius over the grave
110  3   |             based upon a Life of the Emperor Justinian written by the
111  3   |            Phocas (602-10), the last emperor of this period.~ ~
112  3,1 |            the Empire, the Byzantine Emperor protected Christianity in
113  3,3 |          subjection to the Byzantine emperor. The Mediterranean Sea was
114  3,3 |         throne with the ideals of an emperor both Roman and Christian.
115  3,3 |             vassals of the Byzantine Emperor, who had delegated them
116  3,3 |         Roman Empire. As a Christian emperor, Justinian had the mission
117  3,3 |          must be remembered that the Emperor’s broad claims to the old
118  3,3 |      Constantinople and implored the Emperor to inaugurate a campaign
119  3,3 |             themselves supported the Emperor’s ambitious plans. They
120  3,3 |            their subservience to the Emperor, in striving to attain high
121  3,3 |          imprinting the image of the Emperor on their coins, etc. The
122  3,3 |      Visigothic chief who said, “The emperor is undoubtedly God on earth
123  3,4 |             loyal magistrates of the Emperor expressed doubt about the
124  3,4 |            valuable assistant of the Emperor in his military undertakings
125  3,4 |       Considering the war ended, the Emperor recalled Belisarius and
126  3,4 |             strenuous efforts of the Emperor for the defense of his land.~
127  3,4 |              laid at the feet of the emperor as a visible proof that
128  3,4 |     remembered that the power of the Emperor was not equally firm throughout
129  3,4 |            terms of this treaty. The Emperor undertook to pay Persia
130  3,4 |            population could pay. The Emperor’s attempts to curtail the
131  3,4 |             the personal will of the Emperor, could not bring about lasting
132  3,5 |              was his opinion that an emperor “must be not only glorified
133  3,5 |           and interpret laws, and an emperor must be a lawgiver, with
134  3,5 |         theoretical foundations, the Emperor was guided also by practical
135  3,5 |         entirely in the hands of the emperor, the sole form of legislation
136  3,5 |      rapidity. In February, 528, the Emperor gathered a commission of
137  3,5 |            including Tribonian, “the Emperor’s right hand in his great
138  3,5 |  constitutions from the reign of the Emperor Hadrian to the time of Justinian;
139  3,5 |          original undertaking of the Emperor. In the year 530 Tribonian
140  3,5 |            of living reality from an emperor steeped in Roman tradition.
141  3,5 |          address to the students the Emperor wrote, “Receive with all
142  3,6 |              to the authority of the emperor. Fully aware of the fact
143  3,6 |         tendency was followed by the Emperor had to be followed also
144  3,6 |              subjects. The Byzantine Emperor had the right to regulate
145  3,6 |             Rome. In one epistle the Emperor addressed the Pope as the “
146  3,7 |             conversation between the Emperor and the pope: “I shall either
147  3,7 |              is very likely that the Emperor’s concessions to the pope
148  3,7 |       opinion that by this edict the Emperor was violating the conscience
149  3,7 |              Monophysitic faith. The Emperor was very desirous that the
150  3,7 |              with the opinion of the Emperor. The resolution of the Council
151  3,7 |            But at this time the aged Emperor died, and with his death
152  3,7 |           activities. As a Christian emperor he considered it his duty
153  3,8 |              of chariot races. A new emperor, after his coronation, usually
154  3,8 |             the government.”[77] The emperor himself was sometimes obliged
155  3,8 |         Greens, whom the Monophysite emperor favored. After terrible
156  3,8 |      orthodox party proclaimed a new emperor and rushed to the Hippodrome,
157  3,8 |              mollified at seeing the emperor in such a pitiful state,
158  3,8 |              government and even the emperor himself. With the accession
159  3,8 |            the hated government. The Emperor negotiated with the people
160  3,8 |            Anastasius was proclaimed emperor. Sheltered in the palace,
161  3,8 |            an exile … If you wish, O Emperor, to save yourself, there
162  3,8 |              winding sheet.”[82] The Emperor rallied and entrusted to
163  3,8 |     sometimes false donations to the Emperor, confiscation on the basis
164  3,8 |            He conceived it to be the emperor’s duty to introduce new
165  3,8 |           God, who bestowed upon the emperor all his favors. But as a
166  3,8 |  difficulties. This fact alarmed the Emperor, and in one of his Novels
167  3,8 |            In subsequent decrees the Emperor often cited these basic
168  3,8 |              was called praetor. The Emperor’s particular attention was
169  3,8 |         North Africa and Italy.~ The Emperor hoped that his numerous
170  3,8 |     functions were discontinued. The Emperor himself was stricken by
171  3,8 |             external policies of the Emperor; his sweeping military undertakings
172  3,9 |          attempts on the part of the Emperor were not successful, for
173  3,9 |             were erected here by the Emperor Justinian, to people living
174  3,9 | fortifications alone. As a Christian emperor he fostered the building
175  3,11|            had been captured ... the emperor was in despair. He ordered
176  3,12|              during the reign of the Emperor Phocas: “It is recounted
177  3,12|         summoned by the pope not the Emperor, were able to destroy the
178  3,13|        addressed a letter to the new emperor, Phocas, in terms quite
179  3,14|            century, to the period of Emperor Maurice. This combination
180  3,14|           sixth century, the time of Emperor Maurice. The African exarchate
181  3,14|       necessity that could force the Emperor to create such an unlimited
182  3,14|          very dangerous rival of the Emperor himself. And in reality
183  3,14|             the exarch was to become emperor in the year 610. In Africa
184  3,15|       barbarian.”[133] The year when Emperor Constantine Copronymus died (
185  3,16|         learning and literature. The Emperor himself attempted literary
186  3,16|              The author spoke of the Emperor in a slightly laudatory
187  3,16|         unmitigated panegyric of the Emperor, probably written at his
188  3,16|            death of Justinian. While Emperor Maurice showed much interest
189  3,16|              to the new temple.~ The Emperor chose for the execution
190  3,16|           ten thousand laborers. The Emperor visited the construction
191  3,16|         place in the presence of the Emperor. Later sources related that
192  3,16|             sources related that the Emperor, overwhelmed by his attainment,
193  3,16|            door was intended for the emperor. The temple itself, approaching
194  3,16|            the mother of the western emperor, Valentinian III, second,
195  3,16|              religious policy of the Emperor was also a failure, for
196  4   |          Constans II, was proclaimed emperor and ruled from 641 to 668.
197  4   |       reasonable to suppose that the Emperor’s cruel treatment of the
198  4,1 |             a very gifted and active emperor, seemed practically a model
199  4,1 |          described in good verse the emperor’s Persian campaigns and
200  4,1 |            complete anarchy. The new Emperor had neither money nor sufficient
201  4,1 |            After some hesitation the Emperor decided to begin war with
202  4,1 |           for this reign.~ While the Emperor was absent leading the army
203  4,1 |         broke the agreement with the Emperor and in the year 626 advanced
204  4,1 |            extreme exaltation of the emperor, of the princes, of all [
205  4,1 |              poignant emotion of the emperor and of the whole multitude.
206  4,1 |             the whole multitude. The emperor restored [the Cross] to
207  4,1 |             equivalent of the Latin “emperor” (imperator) was the term “
208  4,1 |          ruler to whom the Byzantine emperor consented to give the title
209  4,1 |            longer a concurrence, the Emperor signified the events by
210  4,1 |       advance as follows; “While the Emperor triumphed at Constantinople
211  4,1 |             eastern and western. The Emperor Aurelian restored the unity
212  4,1 |              Emesa (Hims) called the Emperor a “Maronite (Monothelete)
213  4,1 |     Byzantine fleet commanded by the Emperor himself, seized the island
214  4,1 |      recognized the authority of the Emperor, formed, by language and
215  4,1 |         capital, chiefly because the Emperor knew how to prepare the
216  4,1 |         agreement with the Byzantine Emperor on the condition of paying
217  4,1 |        ambassadors with gifts to the Emperor and begged him to establish
218  4,1 |    negotiated under Justinian II the Emperor agreed to force the Mardaites
219  4,1 |              step on the part of the Emperor “destroyed the brass wall.”
220  4,1 |              an act prompted by “the emperor’s consideration for the
221  4,1 |       provisions to the capital. The emperor Constans II was forced to
222  4,1 |            000) was mobilized by the Emperor and later took part in the
223  4,1 |              which they deserted the Emperor and sided with the Muhammedans.
224  4,1 |          preoccupied the mind of the Emperor, and in the year 679 Constantine
225  4,1 |              Byzantine army, and the Emperor was forced to negotiate
226  4,1 |            perforce by the Byzantine Emperor, became a dangerous neighbor.~
227  4,1 |              chroniclers explain the Emperor’s departure from the capital
228  4,1 |           the people, aroused by the Emperor’s murder of his brother,[
229  4,1 |             true reason was that the Emperor no longer considered it
230  4,1 |              It is probable that the Emperor did not intend to leave
231  4,1 |          personal sensitivity of the Emperor, but by political conditions.~
232  4,1 |          feel the strong will of the Emperor because of the great distance
233  4,1 |             large part of Italy. The Emperor’s authority, however, was
234  4,1 |          plot was formed against the Emperor and he was killed in a pitiful
235  4,2 |            by Patriarch Sergius. The Emperor hoped that the Ecthesis
236  4,2 |             between the pope and the Emperor. Moreover, the Ecthesis
237  4,2 |          Heraclius was counting. The Emperor’s chief aim was to reconcile
238  4,2 |            developed as follows. The Emperor still remained an adherent
239  4,2 |            Arabs in the forties, the Emperor made a series of attempts
240  4,2 |             dissatisfaction with the Emperor’s religious policy was also
241  4,2 |              an uprising against the Emperor in the western provinces.
242  4,2 |            the seventh century.~ The Emperor and the patriarch of Constantinople
243  4,2 |     strengthened the position of the Emperor in Italy.~ The famous opponent
244  4,3 |            the pope’s message to the Emperor expounded the true principles
245  4,3 |             at the invitation of the Emperor to Constantinople, the last
246  4,4 |     Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the emperor of the tenth century, and
247  4,4 |           the name of Heraclius. The Emperor said: “Since the reign of
248  4,4 |         intention on the part of the Emperor to adopt the Persian reform.
249  4,4 |           procession and was crowned emperor by the patriarch in the
250  4,4 |            the theme organization to emperor.~ ~ ~Literature, learning,
251  4,4 |              1) On the Expedition of Emperor Heraclius against the Persians, (
252  4,4 |            panegyric in honor of the Emperor on the occasion of his final
253  4,4 |             Adam to the death of the Emperor Phocas (610). In view of
254  5,1 |         Dynasty.~ Until recently the Emperor Leo III (717-741), the originator
255  5,1 |           Constantine VI, proclaimed Emperor from 780 to 797, was a minor.
256  5,1 |             but “Irene, the faithful emperor (basileus).”[9] Since it
257  5,1 |              the period that only an emperor, a man, could be the official
258  5,1 |            fiction that Irene was an emperor. She was dethroned by the
259  5,2 |       internal anarchy caused by the Emperor’s struggle with the representatives
260  5,2 |       Frankish king or the Byzantine emperor) would enter Jerusalem and
261  5,2 |             to settle in Thrace, the Emperor constructed a number of
262  5,4 |    confidence of the masses in their emperor. The true nature of the
263  5,4 |             One chronicler refers to Emperor Leo as “the Saracen-minded” (
264  5,4 |            original pure form. “I am emperor and priest,” wrote Leo III
265  5,4 |       ecclesiastical activity of the Emperor during this period was expressed
266  5,4 |             in the year 726, did the Emperor, according to the chronicler
267  5,4 |            murder was avenged by the Emperor’s severe punishment of the
268  5,4 |         opposed to the policy of the Emperor. In Greece and on the islands
269  5,4 |        Finally, in the year 730, the Emperor convoked a sort of council
270  5,4 |            not only on behalf of the Emperor, but also in the name of
271  5,4 |            of the first iconoclastic emperor within the boundaries of
272  5,5 |          capital, and was proclaimed emperor. During his year of rule
273  5,5 |              the conviction that the Emperor’s measures were just. This
274  5,5 |          each who wishes to obey the Emperor and us put on the white
275  5,5 |            apparently was one of the emperor’s places of exile for recalcitrant
276  5,5 |          districts unaffected by the Emperor’s iconoclastic persecutions.
277  5,5 |              council, from which the Emperor and Empress were absent,
278  5,6 |           believed that the title of emperor gave him no new rights and
279  5,6 |             question of a “titulary” emperor, or of the formation of
280  5,6 |          upon receiving the title of emperor in the year 800 he became
281  5,6 |           temporary deputy could the emperor exercise divine authority
282  5,6 |            Charles and the Byzantine Emperor had begun long before 800.
283  5,6 |            Eruthro, and Constantine, Emperor of Byzantium, at that time
284  5,6 |            Irene dethroned the legal emperor, her son Constantine, and
285  5,6 |            that the newly proclaimed emperor, following the example of
286  5,6 |        Charles did not name himself “Emperor of the Romans,” the official
287  5,6 |           Empire would elect another emperor, whose right to the imperial
288  5,6 |             legates of the Byzantine Emperor Michael I Rangabé saluted
289  5,6 |          Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) as emperor. This finally legalized
290  5,6 |              Charlemagne, the title “Emperor of the Romans” (Βασιλευς
291  5,8 |            minister of finance. This emperor fell in battle with the
292  5,8 |             Drunkard.”~ No Byzantine emperor has been so badly treated,
293  5,8 |              by Bardas, uncle of the Emperor and brother of Theodora,
294  5,8 |     interpreter alone spoke, and the Emperor listened and expressed his
295  5,8 |              city, and the Byzantine Emperor had to face a very dangerous
296  5,8 |       threaten even the power of the Emperor. This was particularly true
297  5,8 |              an uprising against the Emperor and was later proclaimed
298  5,8 |           killed by adherents of the Emperor.[145] In the opinion of
299  5,8 |             authority of the western Emperor; in reality, however, his
300  5,8 |         which came to the aid of the Emperor in the Gulf of Tarentum
301  5,8 |       Italian districts. The western emperor, Lewis II, came there with
302  5,8 |             among the emigrants, the Emperor hoped to avert the danger
303  5,8 |        Nicephorus of the death of an emperor in battle with the barbarians.
304  5,8 |             of the skull of the dead emperor and the “Bulgarian boliads” (
305  5,8 |             questions interested the Emperor very little. They mattered
306  5,8 |              rank by the will of the Emperor directly from among laymen.
307  5,8 |               One source credits the Emperor with these words: “You see
308  5,8 |             was later deposed by the Emperor. The rank of archbishop
309  5,8 |           attitude and activity, the Emperor sent him into distant exile
310  5,8 |              the papal letter to the Emperor and called upon him to restore
311  5,8 |            and the last iconoclastic emperor, was a man well versed in
312  5,8 |          period of the movement. The Emperor’s main adviser and leader
313  5,8 |       geographical boundary, for the Emperor insisted upon the destruction
314  5,8 |            exceptional cases did the Emperor resort to severe punishments.[
315  5,8 |             affairs changed. The new Emperor, Basil I, began his reign
316  5,8 |            events, up to the fall of Emperor Michael I Rangabé, in the
317  5,8 |             events from the death of Emperor Maurice in the year 602
318  5,8 |            from Adam to the death of Emperor Theophilus in 842 A.D.,
319  5,8 |              one anonymous writer on Emperor Leo V the Armenian,[179]
320  5,8 |           Patriarch Nicephorus. This emperor was also the author of some
321  5,8 |           Kasia was one of them. The Emperor had to walk along the rows
322  5,8 |             2000 pounds of gold, the Emperor refused to grant this demand.
323  6   |             the year of the death of Emperor Basil II; the second, the
324  6,1 |       Stories of young Basil reached Emperor Michael III. He took him
325  6,1 |             favors received from the Emperor very brutally: When he noticed
326  6,1 |              then proclaimed himself emperor (867-86). After him the
327  6,1 |           Phocas, who was proclaimed emperor (Nicephorus II Phocas, 963-
328  6,1 |              s daughter, Zoë, became emperor and ruled from 1028 until
329  6,1 |     Paphlagonian, who was proclaimed emperor at his wife’s entreaty,
330  6,1 |           new husband was proclaimed emperor. He ruled as Constantine
331  6,2 |          with Venice and the western emperor. Added to these advantages
332  6,2 |            Paulicans resulted in the Emperor’s occupation of their main
333  6,2 |          intervention of the western Emperor, Louis II, who occupied
334  6,2 |             this the question of the Emperor’s fourth marriage aroused
335  6,2 |          Porphyrogenitus became sole emperor. “It was the end of an era;
336  6,2 |           John Tzimisces, the future emperor, distinguished himself by
337  6,2 |        Nicephorus Phocas, the future emperor, occupied the island of
338  6,2 |              Sviatoslav. Some of the Emperor’s forces were also absorbed
339  6,2 |           last a very long time, the Emperor left his army and returned
340  6,2 |     districts ceded to the Byzantine Emperor and of those over which
341  6,2 |              emir) agreed to aid the Emperor in case of war with the
342  6,2 |            German throne, the future Emperor Otto II. Only then was it
343  6,2 |           This letter shows that the Emperor, in aiming to achieve his
344  6,2 |          delivered themselves to the Emperor; even Jerusalem began to
345  6,2 |              lived there,” wrote the Emperor in his letter to Ashot, “
346  6,2 |               In the same letter the Emperor said, “Today all Phoenicia,
347  6,2 |             returned to Antioch, the Emperor left for Constantinople,
348  6,2 |             had been suppressed, the Emperor frequently participated
349  6,2 |             peace was reached by the Emperor and the Egyptian Caliph
350  6,2 |       chagrined Basil as a Christian emperor. In 1009 Hakim ordered the
351  6,2 |           intervention of the German Emperor Otto II (related to the
352  6,2 |          After the fall of this city Emperor Romanus III proposed a treaty
353  6,2 |       imperial treasury. Second, the Emperor should keep the right of
354  6,2 |             was reached in 1036, the Emperor received the right of restoring
355  6,2 |         traveler noted that even the Emperor himself came to Jerusalem,
356  6,2 |          shows clearly that both the Emperor and the caliph attempted
357  6,3 |             even the capital and the Emperor’s power, the rulers of the
358  6,3 |         Constantinople. The defeated Emperor succeeded in negotiating
359  6,3 |             Romanus Lecapenus became emperor. Meanwhile the Bulgarians
360  6,3 |              suburban palaces of the Emperor were put to the torch. Meanwhile,
361  6,3 |           his right to call himself “emperor of the Bulgarians and Greeks.”~
362  6,3 |         walls of Constantinople. The Emperor, who arrived first, came
363  6,3 |             related to the Byzantine Emperor. The peace treaty that was
364  6,3 |             the Empire, however, the Emperor became greatly disturbed,
365  6,4 |              people, Oleg forced the Emperor to initiate negotiations
366  6,4 |            the army of the Byzantine Emperor.[59]~ In 1912 a Jewish scholar
367  6,4 |        Patzinaks.”[61] The Byzantine Emperor, frightened by these preparations,
368  6,4 |        magnificently received by the Emperor, the Empress, and the heir
369  6,4 |          century the position of the Emperor and his dynasty seemed very
370  6,4 |              receive the hand of the Emperor’s sister, Anna, and promise
371  6,5 |          expedition organized by the Emperor toward the end of his reign
372  6,5 |          with the Patzinaks, and the Emperor was forced to buy peace
373  6,6 |          attribute the absence of an emperor in the West for three and
374  6,6 |            feelings of the Byzantine Emperor, whose aid was so much needed
375  6,6 |         between Otto and the eastern Emperor, Nicephorus Phocas, who
376  6,6 |        negotiations with the eastern Emperor the German ruler sent to
377  6,6 |           sovereign, the most august emperor, freed Rome of that shameful
378  6,6 |              communications with his Emperor, he made every effort to
379  6,6 |           However, the new Byzantine Emperor, John Tzimisces, completely
380  6,6 |             Empire, forced the young Emperor Otto II (973-983) to organize
381  6,6 |              of the eleventh century Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian
382  6,7 |              the eastern church. The Emperor, for example, wrote, “Spiritual
383  6,7 |              Quite different was the Emperor’s attitude toward me problem
384  6,7 |            with the education of the Emperor’s children. Later, when
385  6,7 |          will would have opposed the Emperor’s tendency to rule over
386  6,7 |           Mysticus on account of the Emperor’s fourth marriage, vehemently
387  6,7 |            83] In spite of this, the Emperor forced a presbyter to perform
388  6,7 |             occasion to say that the Emperor was to Zoë “both groom and
389  6,7 |          grant a dispensation to the Emperor without dissolving his fourth
390  6,7 |              the confirmation of the Emperor’s fourth marriage and denounced
391  6,7 |            while.[86] In the end the Emperor saw that only the energetic
392  6,7 |            emerged victorious.”[91]~ Emperor Nicephorus Phocas was a
393  6,7 |             the ascetically inclined Emperor married the young and beautiful
394  6,7 |              Theophano, the widow of Emperor Romanus II, who had a very
395  6,7 |     Nicephorus, which says that this emperor “vanquished all but woman.”[
396  6,7 |        tradition of the Fathers, the Emperor desires to “root out the
397  6,7 |         began to address him as the “Emperor of the Greeks,” while the
398  6,7 |         Greeks,” while the title of “Emperor of the Romans,” an official
399  6,7 |             and the bishops, and the Emperor was forced to give up his
400  6,7 |             rules (typicon) given by Emperor Constantine IX Monomachus
401  6,7 |       especially since the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachus
402  6,7 |              s legislative work. The Emperor himself characterized his
403  6,7 |              to the authority of the Emperor.[115]~ The Prochiron and
404  6,7 |              basileus, meaning tsar, emperor; hence the proper translation
405  6,7 |        Sclerus, rebelled against the Emperor and nearly deprived him
406  6,7 |            prevented the fall of the Emperor. It is not surprising, therefore,
407  6,7 |              Phocas and Sclerus, the Emperor took him to the capital
408  6,7 |            The story stated that the Emperor heard that a certain Philocales
409  6,7 |           poor. By the orders of the Emperor Philocales himself was again
410  6,7 |              the sources shows)[133] Emperor Nicephorus I issued orders
411  6,7 |            so much hatred toward the Emperor that his successors were
412  6,8 |           Minor, which proclaimed as emperor their general, Isaac Comnenus,
413  6,8 |    opposition was formed against the Emperor. When he died in 1067 imperial
414  6,8 |             received the news of the Emperor’s captivity. After some
415  6,8 |          After some hesitation a new emperor was proclaimed, the son
416  6,8 |        Botaniates. He was proclaimed emperor in Asia Minor and forced
417  6,8 |               a nephew of the former Emperor, Isaac Comnenus, who was
418  6,8 |         Alexius Comnenus was crowned emperor and put an end to the period
419  6,8 |              1071-1078): “Under this emperor almost the whole world,
420  6,8 |            Romanus Diogenes. The new Emperor conducted several campaigns
421  6,8 |            the Uzes even entered the Emperor’s service and received certain
422  6,8 |             who rebelled against the Emperor, and, together with other
423  6,8 |            resistance to the western Emperor Lewis II. Robert’s siege
424  6,8 |           states of Western Europe.~ Emperor Michael VII Ducas Parapinakes
425  6,8 |            the two royal houses. The Emperor’s son became engaged to
426  6,8 |           the Empire were gathered.~ Emperor Leo VI the Wise, a pupil
427  6,8 |             of the tenth century was Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus,
428  6,8 |               At the instance of the Emperor, Constantine the Rhodian
429  6,8 |           Bulgaria, to the popes, to Emperor Romanus Lecapenus, to bishops,
430  6,8 |     Constantine Psellus, aroused the Emperor’s interest in their projects
431  6,8 |           street demonstrations. The Emperor found a good way out of
432  6,8 |         scorned the authority of the Emperor and the caliph, and devastated
433  6,8 |     attempting to give due praise to Emperor Manuel Comnenus, could not
434  7,1 |           whose uncle Isaac had been emperor for a short time at the
435  7,1 |            death John was proclaimed Emperor.~ Upon ascending the throne,
436  7,1 |       merciful, calm, and most moral Emperor was little but a continuous
437  7,1 |              western knight, the new Emperor changed at once the austere
438  7,1 |              Having been sent by the Emperor first to Cilicia and then
439  7,1 |        Russian chronicler said: “The Emperor’s cousin Kyr (Sir) Andronicus
440  7,1 |              love with Theodora, the Emperor’s relative and widow of
441  7,1 |        solicitations. The infuriated Emperor commanded Andronicus to
442  7,1 |              child of twelve, became Emperor. Andronicus was then sixty
443  7,1 |              Andronicus became joint emperor with Alexius II. Several
444  7,1 |         became the sole all‑powerful emperor.~ Ascending the throne with
445  7,1 |             a bruised reed?” The new emperor did not even allow the lacerated
446  7,1 |           gifted daughter of the new Emperor, Alexius, said that her
447  7,1 |              no aid to the Byzantine Emperor. But Venice, with a view
448  7,1 |           the help of her fleet, the Emperor promised the Republic of
449  7,1 |        Venice to support the eastern Emperor in his war against the Normans
450  7,1 |             fleet, received from the Emperor enormous trade privileges
451  7,1 |       Tzachas already called himself emperor (basileus), put on the insignia
452  7,1 |           entertained. The Byzantine Emperor humbly solicited the aid
453  7,1 |            an equal footing with the Emperor. The Cuman Khans gave Alexius
454  7,1 |            maritime forces. Then the Emperor stirred up against him the
455  7,1 |              Land. In his letter the Emperor depicted the desperate situation “
456  7,1 |            Christians reach us;” the Emperor “is running before the Turks
457  7,1 |             salvation. The Byzantine Emperor did not hesitate now to
458  7,1 |           authentic message that the Emperor had sent Robert to remind
459  7,1 |        important problem whether the Emperor called upon the aid of the
460  7,1 |            Normans and abandoned the Emperor at the critical moment.
461  7,1 |            be very fortunate for the Emperor. Shortly before the crusade,
462  7,1 |           that struggle in view, the Emperor undertook a number of offensive
463  7,1 |           the good will of the Greek Emperor.” Bréhier ascribed Rosen’
464  7,1 |           the eleventh century under Emperor Constantine Monomachus.
465  7,1 |       original idea of the Byzantine Emperor to get some mercenary auxiliaries
466  7,1 |             and Patzinak danger, the Emperor Michael VII Ducas had sent
467  7,1 |             of the masses nor of the Emperor himself did there exist
468  7,1 |        statements on the part of the Emperor himself and his learned
469  7,1 |              the crusading idea. The Emperor waited with irritation and
470  7,1 |         history I should compare the Emperor Alexius to the jackal, who
471  7,1 |              Byzantium long ago, the Emperor did not lay claim, but confined
472  7,1 |            crusaders. Of course, the Emperor was deeply discontented
473  7,1 |       rupture took place between the Emperor and Bohemond of Tarentum,
474  7,1 |               A struggle between the Emperor and Bohemond was unavoidable.
475  7,1 |          against the Muslims and the Emperor, his sworn enemy. His further
476  7,1 |             take up arms against the Emperor’s enemies; and to hand over
477  7,1 |           been granted to him by the Emperor. He promised to make war
478  7,1 |             consent to submit to the Emperor. The patriarch of Antioch
479  7,1 |           was to be appointed by the Emperor from persons belonging to
480  7,1 |             hand Antioch over to the Emperor. Alexius had to begin all
481  7,1 |         Alexius, John II, was of the emperor‑soldier type and spent the
482  7,1 |    tremendous blow to Byzantium. The Emperor, theoretically still claiming
483  7,1 |            had taken no oaths to the Emperor and later on had refused
484  7,1 |            the oath of fealty to the Emperor and, as a sign of his submission,
485  7,1 |           his return to Antioch, the Emperor, as suzerain, made a solemn
486  7,1 |          streets of the city. By the Emperor’s side, as if he were his
487  7,1 |               At the city gates, the Emperor was welcomed by the patriarch
488  7,1 |              a brightest star!”~ The Emperor’s plans went farther. According
489  7,1 |            more murderous hands; the Emperor who loves Christ has put
490  7,1 |              threatening both to the Emperor and sultan, compelled both
491  7,1 |      promised to be “a friend of the Emperor’s friends and an enemy of
492  7,1 |             is to say, the Byzantine Emperor and the Latin rulers of
493  7,1 |           could ignore the Byzantine Emperor. Also the participation
494  7,1 |          Christian world had but one emperor, namely Manuel, because
495  7,1 |            did not bear the title of emperor.~ In 1147 the leaders of
496  7,1 |             ally of Sicily,” and the Emperor’s conjectures had serious
497  7,1 |              face of this danger the Emperor turned his mind to transporting
498  7,1 |              of the crusade upon the Emperor; the failure of the enterprise
499  7,1 |      negotiations were going on, the Emperor was energetically preparing
500  7,1 |             Byzantine territory; the Emperor hoped later on to transfer