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1001 2,1 | open and freely granted, as befits the quiet of our times,
1002 8,9 | decrees with red ink, as befitted the imperial dignity, and
1003 9,13| of the speechless:” the beginners, progressives, successful,
1004 7,1 | the Venetians began to behave so arrogantly and impertinently
1005 9,12| plans for union, Michael behaved with great cruelty in the
1006 2,2 | since it prevents me from beholding thy impiety.” Julian passed
1007 4,1 | enemy of our faith,”[40] and Beladsori, another Arabian historian
1008 3,15| and captured Singidunum [Belgrade], Anchialus, and all of
1009 5,8 | express the deep joy of believers because of Christ’s victory
1010 9,9 | commander, Giustiniani, rather belittled the role of Constantine,
1011 7,1 | satisfy their ambition and bellicosity, and to increase their means.
1012 9,9 | Venetian artist, Gentile Bellini, who spent a short time (
1013 7,1 | could not be sufficiently bemourned: pits were filled to the
1014 9,9 | including all sorts of plants bending under the burden of spiritual
1015 2,2 | apparition on the horizon beneath which had already disappeared
1016 3,6 | The same year when St. Benedict destroyed the last pagan
1017 9,5 | edict (chrysobull) a great benefaction in order that the monks
1018 5,7 | Eastern Empire, and one of the benefactors of humanity,”[114] the Germans, “
1019 8,17| the landowner, distributed benefices, received commendations,
1020 8,17| kharistikarios corresponded to beneficiarius, i.e. a man granted land
1021 4,1 | nothing but material, earthly benefits, and craved spoils and unrestrained
1022 3,12| Italy and soon occupied Benevento (Beneventum). Though they
1023 9,19| that [that Emperor] is as benevolent and gracious to me as the
1024 6,7 | The list published by V. Beneševič and attributed to the reign
1025 3,13| grow cheerful for your benignant deeds! … Let every single
1026 9,15| century Italian painter, Benozzo Gozzoli, representing the
1027 9,2 | of the Two Sicilies, and bequeathed the throne to his son Andronicus
1028 2,3 | especially those concerned with bequests and inheritance.~ For all
1029 9,3 | between Hulagu and Berke (Bereke), khan of the Golden Horde.~
1030 7,4 | Italian from the city of Bergamo, and he was chosen by all
1031 9,7 | investigator of Manuel’s activity, Berger de Xivrey, wrote: “This
1032 2,5 | Kaiser Friedrich Museum of Berlin, is apparently also a work
1033 9,19| Calabria, changed his name from Bernardo to Barlaam, and spent some
1034 7,4 | Manuel, the German princess Bertha-Irene, who was called by the author
1035 7,1 | exterminated;” they humbly beseech help in order “that the
1036 9,19| to me and supplicates and beseeches more earnestly than the
1037 6,2 | sides carried gifts to him, beseeching him to make peace with them;
1038 | beside
1039 9,7 | infuriated Murad II decided to besiege Constantinople and crush
1040 9,18| in present-day Greece and Bessarabia.[411]~ Several medical treatises
1041 9,19| churches, under the title Bessarione.~ But Byzantium contributed
1042 8,2 | prevailing opinion of the best-born and best-educated people
1043 8,2 | opinion of the best-born and best-educated people of the Empire of
1044 4,1 | desert. Historically, the best-known provinces of the peninsula
1045 9,19| appearance of this “man of such bestial manners and strange customs.”[
1046 9,19| Calabrian ready to laugh bestially at the admirable flashes
1047 2,2 | most honored gods, let them betake themselves to the churches
1048 7,3 | whom they accused of having betrayed the Empire to the crusaders.
1049 9,17| century;” this struggle “betrays a vague tendency towards
1050 9,9 | Constantinople by the Latins in 1204, bewailed the event of 1453. He began
1051 9,3 | sultan of Egypt, Mameluk Beybars, was also a Muslim, while
1052 9,19| guided by the well known bibliophile Poggio, traveled through
1053 7,4 | addressed. A Book of Stories (Βιβλιος ιστορων) written in so-called
1054 9,15| the libraries of Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana; besides the
1055 7,3 | entirely secular; secondly, it bifurcated the single motive which
1056 9,15| of Florence. Between the big bas-reliefs, fifteenth century
1057 7,3 | seashore of the Aegean, was the biggest independent Greek center
1058 7,1 | the nineteenth century (Bikélas) wrote:~ ~To the Western
1059 2,5 | Antioch, important as a biographical source — all these reveal
1060 2,5 | and Christian views. This bishop-philosopher felt that the classical
1061 7,3 | account of Novgorod, P. Bizilli, considered it very important
1062 7,2 | was begun by the Vlachs (Blachi); that their leaders, Peter
1063 7,2 | Greece” (Kalopetrus Bachorum [Blachorum] dominus itemque a suis
1064 7,2 | himself “totius Bulgariae et Blaciae Primas.”~ Although the Wallachians
1065 9,18| to abase, ridicule, and blacken his adversaries. Cantacuzene
1066 9,19| hated Italy and vilifies and blames Greece and Byzantium, which
1067 7,3 | view holds the crusaders blameworthy for their deviation from
1068 9,18| millenarian period would remain blank.”[412] The study of mathematics
1069 9,13| council listing “Barlaam’s blasphemies” proclaimed that “he has
1070 9,19| air of Hellenic thought blew from the East to the West,
1071 9,13| this prayerful spirit is a blissful humility. Later the doctrine
1072 6,8 | the Norman fleet, which blockaded the port. The siege lasted
1073 9,3 | Mamluks and Kipchaks was blocked by the dominions of Hulagu.
1074 7,3 | Baldwin of Flanders, Louis of Blois, and many others assumed
1075 3,4 | fled, but in vain.[24] “His blood-stained garments and the cap adorned
1076 9,9 | outbursts of harsh cruelty, blood-thirstiness, and many of the baser vices,
1077 9,4 | whose father’s surname, Blum (i.e. a flower), was translated
1078 3,16| full of the most glaring blunders, alike in grammar and prosody.”
1079 8,16| Belthandros and Chrysantza on board the ship and bring them
1080 6,7 | better still, like wild boars, in order to overthrow truth.”[
1081 8,2 | councils, and its inhabitants boasted of the powerful walls, towers,
1082 7,4 | burning of the head of the Bogomilian doctrine, the monk Basil,
1083 5,8 | into the hands of Boris (Bogoris; 852-889), whose name is
1084 8,11| Carpathians, and arrived at Bohemia before they were forced
1085 9,9 | and the Turks ate meat boiled on the fire.[225] Nevertheless,
1086 3,9 | China through Sogdiana (now Bokhara or Bukhara) to the Persian
1087 5,4 | E. Stein called him the boldest and freest thinker of all
1088 7,1 | combined with the enterprising boldness of a barbarian the refinement
1089 5,8 | emperor and the “Bulgarian boliads” (nobles)[149] were forced
1090 2,1 | calculations of Professor V. Bolotov, which coincided with the
1091 8,2 | during World War I Nicaea was bombarded, and no single house was
1092 9,9 | and walls are; standing bombards in very great number; on
1093 3,16| Belisarius, in spite of bombast, is still simple and natural;
1094 2,1 | importance to Constantine:~ ~As Bonaparte sought to conciliate the
1095 9,18| editor in the defective Bonn edition.”[357]~ Laonikos
1096 8,16| belong to those educated and book-loving men who, some in the quiet
1097 3,16| represents a historical booklet for the people in the fullest:
1098 4,1 | the queen of the Persians, Borane, apparently also sent a
1099 7,1 | similar to that of Caesar Borgia,” “Alcibiades of the Middle‑
1100 2,3 | lawbook as well as by the borrowings from it found in many Syriac
1101 7,1 | later passed into Serbia and Bosnia, and then into western Europe,
1102 9,18| Empire, to the Serbs, the Bosniaks, the Bulgarians and the
1103 2,3 | of piratical raids, using Bosporian vessels. They repeatedly
1104 4,1 | Byzantine fortress Bothra (Bosra), beyond the Jordan; in
1105 4,1 | of the Byzantine fortress Bothra (Bosra), beyond the Jordan;
1106 3,16| on the inside from top to bottom with marvelous sculptural
1107 7,1 | and them [the Latins] a bottomless gulf of enmity has established
1108 9,17| 2) the middle class or bourgeoisie, “the middle” (οι μεσοι),
1109 3,15| facial features and with bow-shaped eyelashes and sharp features
1110 5,8 | barbarians. Krum made a bowl out of the skull of the
1111 5,8 | Theodore were flogged and branded on their foreheads with
1112 8,13| external policy and for his own breadth of learning.~ Theodore’s
1113 7,1 | mouths of the barbarians, who breathe out hatred upon us, in case
1114 6,6 | mother had been born and bred. Only in following the footsteps
1115 7,1 | on a vessel sailing from Bremen.~ To sum up, Manuel’s policy
1116 7,1 | which the famous Arnold of Brescia had taken part rendered
1117 7,1 | order to make them less bribable; honest and incorruptible
1118 9,6 | Cantacuzene’s attempt to bribe the Turks to evacuate Zympa
1119 3,16| simple because its bare brick walls are void of any ornamentation.
1120 9,18| other more detailed. The briefer, which is often called minus,
1121 7,1 | than Islam. In one of his briefs concerning the regions occupied
1122 6,8 | Guiscard, “who, from a chief of brigands, rose to the rank of a founder
1123 7,1 | amidst them thou shonest as a brightest star!”~ The Emperor’s plans
1124 9,3 | Empire seemed to be on the brink of ruin, and Charles of
1125 7,3 | and then, along our vale~Broad-flowing among reeds, gives nurture
1126 5,8 | theological teaching. So broad-minded was Photius in his relations
1127 2,2 | immunities of the clergy were broadened; bishops were exempted from
1128 6,2 | with pictures and Byzantine brocade worked in gold. The legend
1129 8,10| personal enemies, this “viper brood of the Hohenstaufens,” which
1130 7,3 | Taygetus, whence, still a merry brook~Downward Eurotas rolls,
1131 7,1 | upon me! Why do you break a bruised reed?” The new emperor did
1132 8,13| land of the Iapygians and Brundusium, from Bithynia, Euboea,
1133 6,8 | barbarism and to complete brutalization.”[150]~ During the years
1134 6,1 | received from the Emperor very brutally: When he noticed that Michael
1135 7,4 | investigators, Bezobrazov and Bryanzev, for example, state, “judged
1136 3,8 | nature and effects of the bubonic disease. From Egypt the
1137 6,8 | Porphyrogenitus (i.e., Basil II Bulgar-octonus) until that of (Constantine)
1138 7,1 | taken an active part in the Bulgaro‑Byzantine war of the tenth
1139 5,8 | Bulgarian attacks.~ Later Bulgaro-Byzantine relations were not marked
1140 5,3 | and conclude with them a Bulgaro-Slavonic alliance. Therefore he introduced
1141 9,3 | Bulgarian” (vicus qui vocatur Bulgarus).[48] The Serbian and Bulgarian
1142 3,5 | known by this name.~ The bulkiness of Justinian’s legislative
1143 9,7 | Duke of Milan and the papal bulls, and planning a visit to
1144 9,17| the same time, an Italian, Buondelmonti of Florence, wrote that
1145 9,12| enemies and state officials, burdened with exorbitant taxes, and
1146 7,4 | namely James, a Venetian, Burgundio, a Pisan, and the third,
1147 9,18| world where racial hatred burns so fiercely, he describes
1148 5,8 | ensuing civil war, “like some bursting cataracts of the Nile, flooded
1149 4,1 | certain Arabian tribes of burying alive newly born girls.
1150 7,1 | were heaps of slain; in bushes, mountains of dead … No
1151 3,4 | in 552 in the battle of Busta Gallorum in Umbria. Totila
1152 7,4 | Constantinople.” The brilliant and bustling life of Constantinople under
1153 2,4 | name of Makelles, that is, “Butcher,” but the historian Th.
1154 6,7 | wax, and soap; grocers, butchers, sellers of pigs, fish,
1155 8,13| particularly by the erection of buttresses. So, Swift concluded, “the
1156 3,12| Ravenna, which the barbarians by-passed as they moved on to the
1157 3,9 | peninsula, a customhouse for bygoing vessels was established
1158 7,4 | reminded the audience of the bygone greatness of the city, the
1159 3,16| Italian-Byzantine Pompeii,” or “la Byzance occidentale,”[167] offers
1160 7,1 | represented “a perfect type of a Byzantian of the twelfth century with
1161 2,2 | the Black Sea and that the Byzantians thus controlled all the
1162 8,2 | in the formation of the Byzantine-Bulgarian alliance in 1204-5.[8] This
1163 7,4 | of the Eucharist arose in Byzantinum; the Emperor himself took
1164 2,2 | Megarian colony, Byzantium (Βυζαντιον).~ Long before Constantine
1165 9,7 | neither barking of dog, nor cackling of fowl, nor cry of child.”[
1166 2,1 | against all traditions of Caesarism.”[10] E. Krebs, in the Papers
1167 3,6 | is known in history as Caesaro-papism, and Justinian may be considered
1168 5,4 | innovation. It was the accepted caesaro-papistic view of the Byzantine emperors
1169 2,2 | incense, not so much as a cake, not a single beast for
1170 9,19| Byzantines, but south Italians (Calabrians), is reduced to the mere
1171 7,4 | autobiography, Historia calamitatum, is still read with intense
1172 3,8 | lamentable. Among these calamities the devastating plague of
1173 9,18| of his disciples, Manuel Calecas.[368] Cydones translated
1174 8,17| ancient Egypt, in the Arab califate, in Japan, in the Islands
1175 7,4 | between the Emperor and Popes Calixtus II and Honorius II; two
1176 2,3 | Devoting most of his time to calligraphy, he copied many old manuscripts
1177 8,16| political verses, the story of Callimachos and Chrysorroë, may also
1178 4,1 | invented by the architect Callinicus, a Syrian-Greek fugitive.
1179 2,5 | fourteenth century, Nicephorus Callistus, who wrote; “I have read
1180 3,8 | in such a pitiful state, calmed down and the revolt subsided.
1181 5,5 | internal life of the Empire was calmer than under his father Constantine
1182 2,2 | death with philosophical calmness, the Emperor presented a
1183 7,1 | general respect; he was called Calojohn (Caloyan), that is to say,
1184 7,1 | he was called Calojohn (Caloyan), that is to say, John the
1185 9,19| his work Against Plato’s Calumniator (In calumniatorem Platonis),
1186 9,19| Plato’s Calumniator (In calumniatorem Platonis), succeeded in
1187 4,1 | by acting as a driver of camels in the trade caravans of
1188 3,16| church stands the round campanile constructed later. The interior
1189 3,13| when cities are destroyed, camps overthrown, provinces depopulated,
1190 7,4 | Egypt, from the land of Canaan, and the empire of Russia,
1191 9,9 | exertions of a great number of “canaille,” according to Barbaro,[
1192 3,11| condition of annual tribute was canceled; and finally, the Empire,
1193 3,2 | with them. Theodora died of cancer in the year 548, long before
1194 5,8 | the island, Chandax, or Candia, originated.[144] From then
1195 7,3 | seems to have opposed his candidacy; he judged Boniface too
1196 2,2 | cities of the Empire. The candidates were to be elected by the
1197 2,5 | the opinion of later Greek canonists who defended the rights
1198 8,12| composed, a sort of popular canonization. The memory of John Vatatzes
1199 9,18| Fiorio and Biancifiore (Il cantare di Fiorio e Biancifiore),
1200 3,4 | blood-stained garments and the cap adorned with gems which
1201 7,2 | Βαμβακοραβδης).~In his qualities and capacities the new Emperor scarcely
1202 7,3 | eyes of the commune” (oculi capitales communis).~ Concerning the
1203 2,1 | the Roman colony, Aelia Capitolina, during the reign of the
1204 7,4 | order to secure it from the caprice of the governor or tax gatherers
1205 5,8 | threatened Rome, but upon capturing rich spoils, they departed
1206 3,6 | head of all holy churches” (caput omnium sanctarum ecclesiarum),[
1207 4,4 | and 4) the maritime thema Caravisionorum, called later, perhaps in
1208 9,14| dined with the pope; all the cardinals were invited to the table.
1209 2,1 | the fullest manner to your Carefulness [i.e., the praeses of Bithynia],
1210 3,3 | had lost because of their carelessness. From this old theory arose
1211 6,7 | estates and the numerous cares of fruit trees” cannot be
1212 8,16| Latros, close to Miletus, in Caria, famous for its strict monastic
1213 3,15| was the German historian, Carl Hopf, who had studied thoroughly
1214 8,4 | on the Maeander river, in Carla. The chief force of Theodore
1215 8,17| of the Merovingians and Carolingians as well as in Old Russia
1216 9,2 | smoke and fume”[5] from the carousals of the Latin emperors, and
1217 8,11| in 1240, then crossed the Carpathians, and arrived at Bohemia
1218 7,1 | through streets decorated with carpets, hangings, and flowers,
1219 6,7 | alienated from the Empire: the Carthagenian or African exarchate was
1220 3,14| beginning of the African, or Carthaginian, exarchate (often called
1221 9,9 | of books were loaded upon carts and scattered through various
1222 5,4 | mosaics, fresco, sculpture, or carving had for a long time unsettled
1223 2,5 | tax in gold,” or a tax in cash instead of kind. It was
1224 5,8 | carvings, especially ivory caskets, may also be attributed
1225 8,14| Nicholas of Otranto, abbot of Casole, of southern Italy, took
1226 3,11| along the shores of the Caspian Sea. They occupied the territory
1227 3,6 | the sacred grove of Monte Cassino, saw also the destruction
1228 2,5 | historians of the sixth century, Cassiodorus and Jordanes. Zosimus, who
1229 9,4 | which was called in Catalan Castell de Cetines, was fortified;
1230 3,9 | line of fortifications (castella) in northern Africa, on
1231 9,2 | Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain (Castile).[30] This act, of course,
1232 2,4 | later fought the famous Catalaunian battle. Shortly afterwards
1233 9,2 | for Constantinople in a Catalonian vessel and was solemnly
1234 3,4 | Abyssinia, above the First Cataract, the Blemyes, and the Nobadae (
1235 5,8 | war, “like some bursting cataracts of the Nile, flooded the
1236 5,8 | so-called Small and Large Catechisms, proved to be the most popular
1237 5,3 | Gelzer was particularly categorical in this regard. “Leo definitely
1238 7,1 | names: Patarins in Italy, Cathari in Germany and Italy, Poblicans (
1239 2,3 | the fourth century: in the cathedrals and churches, in the imperial
1240 2,3 | universal) church (ecclesia catholica) had been contrasted with
1241 9,18| of Latin authors such as Cato the Elder, Ovid, Cicero,
1242 2,3 | Aurelian.[116] Synesius cautioned the Emperor:~ ~The least
1243 5,8 | of monks founded numerous cave habitations and hermitages
1244 3,16| did not last very long; it caved in even during Justinian’
1245 9,3 | the emperors and sultans, ceaselessly invaded the Byzantine territory,
1246 2,3 | Religious disputes, far from ceasing, only multiplied and spread
1247 7,1 | roots; high was the Cilician cedar, and thou, before us, hast
1248 6,3 | realization of this scheme only by ceding to the Bulgarians other
1249 7,4 | creation of the world. George Cedrenus, who lived under Alexius
1250 7,4 | buildings and mosaics of Cefalu, Palermo, and Monreale,
1251 2,1 | special illumination and no celestial army chaplain to bring about
1252 2,4 | patriarch, Cyril, and Pope Celestine, who condemned the new heretical
1253 8,16| gloomy monk confined in, his cell, interested only in ecclesiastical
1254 7,1 | exclaimed, “Strong was the Celtic oak, and thou hast pulled
1255 6,7 | existence of both anchorites and cenobites. Following the lead of St.
1256 5,8 | basis of community life (cenoby); the intellectual needs
1257 2,5 | carried lighted tapers and censers full of burning incense,
1258 9,3 | reform, took an official census of the wealth of the akritai
1259 2,1 | celebration of the sixteenth centennial of the so-called Edict of
1260 3,16| interests of the Empire, centering primarily in the East; hence
1261 3,8 | city. But these attempts to centralize territories and power in
1262 9,4 | Boeotia, at the river of the Cephisus, near the Lake of Copais (
1263 6,8 | chronography he wrote, “I was certified that my tongue has been
1264 9,18| Palaeologi, one must first of all certify to a great strength, activity,
1265 9,4 | called in Catalan Castell de Cetines, was fortified; for the
1266 7,1 | earth] because of Christ” (cf. Hebr. 11:13); “do not fear
1267 2,3 | wheat by separating the chaff and all other matter, which,
1268 7,1 | loves Christ has put them in chains and broken to pieces the
1269 7,4 | the protos, that is, the chairman of the council of the igumens (
1270 3,8 | orthodoxy, hence also called Chalcedonians, adherents of the Council
1271 3,1 | Justin, who adhered to the Chalcedonlan doctrine and took the offensive
1272 9,5 | power. The peninsula of Chalcldice itself with the Athenian
1273 9,9 | Byzantine literature, Laonikos Chalco-condyles (or Chalcondyles), choosing
1274 2,5 | survey of the history of the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Hebrews, Egyptians,
1275 5,4 | one of the doors of the Chalke, as the magnificent entrance
1276 2,3 | which could at any moment challenge the Empire. The native Greco-Roman
1277 5,8 | new name of the island, Chandax, or Candia, originated.[
1278 5,8 | Constantinople, and a special chant, which has been preserved
1279 2,5 | Lord God of Hosts”) be chanted with the addition of the
1280 5,8 | his Easter service, whose chants express the deep joy of
1281 9,2 | Constantinople) a small chapel of the Holy Virgin erected
1282 2,1 | illumination and no celestial army chaplain to bring about what was
1283 9,2 | Michael Palaeologus by C. Chapman, brief and superficial but
1284 9,5 | motive of his activity, and characterizes the whole time of his reign.”[
1285 5,8 | quite so far as Grégoire in characterizing Michael as a genius; indeed,
1286 9,18| speeches into the mouths of his characters, which were, of course,
1287 9,16| to pay an annual tribute (charadj). Half of the churches in
1288 5,8 | portrait of his favorite charioteer.~ The artistic monuments
1289 3,8 | charioteers, their horses and chariots, and always competed and
1290 6,1 | in the Macedonian city of Charioupolis.[3]~ Basil’s life previous
1291 2,4 | Constantinople, and in his place Charisius was brought from Africa.”[
1292 9,18| his wife. Thanks to magic charms, the rival carries off Rhodamne,
1293 5,8 | such as pictures of the chase, the Hippodrome, trees,
1294 7,4 | amazed to see the enormous chasm that separated the contemporary
1295 2,5 | Turkish fortifications of the Chatalja lines erected in almost
1296 8,16| Erotocastron, they see the Chateau d’amour of Provençal poetry;
1297 5,1 | the Khagan of the Khazars (Chazars). He had by her a son, Leo
1298 5,8 | successful progress was checked. He died suddenly, affording
1299 8,13| August entered the city, cheerfully greeted by the populace;
1300 3,10| belongs to one of the most cheerless periods in Byzantine history,
1301 7,4 | also in Russia, at Kiev, Chernigov, Novgorod and in its neighborhood,
1302 8,16| Emperor of Nicaea.[193] E. A. Chernousov wrote: John was “not a gloomy
1303 3,4 | another invaded the Thracian Chersonese, and the third, consisting
1304 6,4 | Byzantine city of Cherson (Chersonesus, or Korsun) in the Crimea
1305 7,4 | feed upon them, my dear! Chew greedily thy writings! Take
1306 7,4 | Turks, Alans, Rhodians and Chians (of the island of Chios),
1307 3,4 | the Kotrigurs under their chieftain, Zabergan, entered Thrace.
1308 9,4 | the Serbian monastery of Chilandarion, on Mount Athos, wrote: “
1309 5,8 | reads as follows: “All the childish plays, the raging mockeries
1310 5,8 | marginal illustrations the Chludoff (Chludov) Psalter is especially
1311 5,8 | illustrations the Chludoff (Chludov) Psalter is especially interesting.
1312 7,3 | took the cross. But the choicest of the western knights,
1313 7,1 | work of the Frenchman M. Choiseul Daillecourt, Upon the Influence
1314 8,16| Italian Corfù); and Demetrius Chomatenos (Chomatianos), archbishop
1315 7,4 | sometimes also surnamed Choniatae after their native city.
1316 9,9 | Chalco-condyles (or Chalcondyles), choosing as the main topic of his
1317 2,2 | for sacrifice, libations, choruses in honor of the god, incense,
1318 3,7 | of Ephesus) called her a “Christ-loving woman filled with zeal”
1319 2,1 | intermix gradually to form a Christian-Greco-Eastern culture subsequently known
1320 2,2 | influence resulted in a new Christian-Greco-Roman, or “Byzantine,” culture.
1321 7,3 | which western and eastern Christianities should be fused together
1322 6,8 | all Christians (ad omnes christianos), in which he stated that “
1323 9,9 | of Christ (Ad universos Christifideles de expugnatione Constantinopolis)
1324 2,1 | Kaiser Constantin und die christliche Kirche, written by E. Schwartz,
1325 4,2 | will in Jesus Christ. The Christological part of this document was
1326 7,3 | also mentioned in Russian “chronogra-phies.”~ The spoils were collected
1327 8,2 | well as in the old Russian chronographies, speaks of him as an enemy
1328 8,16| story of Callimachos and Chrysorroë, may also be referred to
1329 2,5 | introduction of a new tax, the chrysoteleia (χρυσοτελεια), a “gold tax,”
1330 9,18| as Cato the Elder, Ovid, Cicero, and Caesar. He is perhaps
1331 8,15| himself “dominus Rhode et Cicladum insularum Ksserus Leo Gavalla,” “
1332 6,8 | time of Charlemagne, or The Cid, both of which also grew
1333 7,1 | its roots; high was the Cilician cedar, and thou, before
1334 7,3 | establish’d, pressing from Cimmerian night,~And have uprear’d
1335 9,18| Hellenist, to spread and circulate in the Greek Church the
1336 8,11| Paris, reflect some rumors circulating at that time in Europe.[
1337 3,16| enormous dome 31 meters in circumference, constructed with unusual
1338 3,8 | felt that they had been circumvented by Justin’s, and later Justinian’
1339 3,16| monasteries, palaces, bridges, cisterns, aqueducts, baths, and hospitals.
1340 3,16| can be judged either by citations found in the writers of
1341 2,2 | still bears the name La Cité (Latin civitas), a city
1342 9,18| and Crete, was granted citizenship of Venice,[366] and ended
1343 8,17| not alienate the lands to civilians. Although some scholars
1344 4,1 | by the Aramean and Greek civilizations; hence they are sometimes
1345 6,2 | which was at the same time a civilizing task. The Empire left by
1346 2,2 | the name La Cité (Latin civitas), a city which was connected
1347 9,17| inhabitants are not well clad, but sad and poor, showing
1348 9,6 | Cydones, testified that clamors and lamentations resounded
1349 4,1 | member of the Hashimite clan, one of the poorest clans
1350 8,16| maidservant is performed. The clandestine meetings between Belthandros
1351 4,1 | clan, one of the poorest clans of the Kuraish tribe. His
1352 5,4 | sources still prevents its clarification.[69]~ In the first place,
1353 2,5 | in which he sought to clarify the more complicated ideas
1354 2,1 | at first that these two clashing elements, representing two
1355 3,16| Classe (the Ravennan port, Classis). The main artistic value
1356 6,4 | and with the corresponding clause of the treaty of 911 (as
1357 9,17| pewter, and all the rest of clay ... at that festival most
1358 3,8 | while keeping their hands clean [of bribes] everywhere,”
1359 7,1 | Latin insolence and the clearing of the Empire from barbarian
1360 7,2 | and Vlachs. The western cleric Ansbert, who followed the
1361 9,7 | accompanied by a retinue of clerical and lay representatives,
1362 2,1 | doctrine. The Christian clergy (clerici) were given all the privileges
1363 3,16| hagiographic literature. John Climacus (ο της κλιμακος) lived in
1364 3,4 | the enervating southern climate and influenced by Roman
1365 7,1 | Despite natural difficulties, climatic conditions, and the resistance
1366 6,7 | the clisurarchs. The name clisura, which even today means
1367 6,7 | small province” ruled by a clisurarch, whose authority was nor
1368 6,7 | Among them were included two clisurarchiae, one ducatus, and two archontatus.
1369 6,7 | of the clisurae and the clisurarchs. The name clisura, which
1370 9,9 | night between one and two o’clock of May 28-29. At the given
1371 8,9 | place called Klokotinitza (Clocotimtza), now Semidje, between Hadrianople
1372 3,16| firsthand information. His closeness to Belisarius gave him access
1373 7,1 | agreement. The document closes with Bohemond’s solemn oath
1374 6,2 | would always remain the closest ally of the Empire.[37]
1375 5,8 | interesting. A kind of reading club seems to have existed at
1376 6,8 | Their influence excluded the clumsy forms of the sixth century,
1377 2,3 | with Greek or Latin and clung strongly to the native Syriac
1378 2,2 | may still be seen near the Cluny Museum in Paris. Julian
1379 3,9 | Mediterranean Sea. Another port, Clysma (near present-day Suez),
1380 9,4 | emperors to appoint their co-rulers and have them crowned with
1381 3,5 | Tribonian and his two learned coadjutors, Theophilus, professor in
1382 6,6 | of his hatred for German coarseness, and dreamed of the restoration
1383 2,3 | repeatedly robbed the rich coastland of the Caucasus and Asia
1384 9,6 | population of the peninsula, coastlands, and islands became unbearable;
1385 7,1 | though some of them wore coats of mail they were still
1386 9,17| wrongly, ascribed to Kodinus (Codinus). In this treatise are described
1387 2,1 | the divine sign of Christ (coeleste signum Dei).[22] Lactantius
1388 5,3 | names of Leo and his son and coemperor, Constantine.[62]~ ~
1389 3,13| Universal Church. He is to be coerced, who does wrong to the Holy
1390 7,1 | were forced to resort to coercive measures. But it was unfortunate
1391 7,2 | Richard I the Lion-Hearted (Coeur-de-Lion), king of England, and Frederick
1392 9,8 | the despot (Constantinum cognomento Dragas) and his dignitaries.
1393 9,2 | Roman Republic, the tribune Cola di Rienzo. Cantacuzene sent
1394 9,2 | Having described famine, cold, fatigue, and the crossing
1395 7,1 | chivalry responded to the idea coldly and partly because Suger
1396 2,2 | times manifested, a certain coldness and even hatred. Julian’
1397 5,4 | and worshipped” (ne quod colitur et adoratur in parietibus
1398 6,8 | brilliantly carried out by his collaborators, M. Canard and R. Goossens.
1399 2,5 | very likely that these were collective names, and historians consider
1400 7,4 | without fearing the tax collector’s menace, without thinking
1401 7,3 | imperial crown. The electoral college assembled to elect the new
1402 9,6 | terms of peace, continued to collide. However, the peace of Turin,
1403 5,3 | contains no reference to the colonate or serfdom which predominated
1404 2,3 | others were made to settle as coloni in the depopulated Roman
1405 2,5 | Krumbacher, were “discovered” and colonized only from the time of Alexander
1406 2,5 | for thirty years, became a colonus, a man attached to the soil,
1407 6,2 | with the utmost skill, of colored marbles, with ornamentation
1408 7,1 | eclipse of the sun.”~Such a colorful figure as that of Manuel
1409 9,12| Touch not … handle not” (Coloss. 2:21), i.e. touch not those
1410 7,1 | wagons and unorganized; he coloured the waters of the Danube
1411 9,18| the fourteenth century, Coluccio Salutati, wrote Cydones
1412 2,2 | organization capable of combating the Christian church. For
1413 4,1 | Ages Dante, in his Divine Comedy, considered Muhammed a heretic
1414 7,1 | the restless and dangerous comers to Asia Minor, where they
1415 9,18| palace with its riches, comfort, and beauty,[404] which
1416 7,4 | them joyfully and slept comfortably, without fearing the tax
1417 9,6 | prefati domini Sabaudie comitis), who was related to the
1418 6,2 | frontier. Romanus appointed as commander-in-chief Curcuas, “the most brilliant
1419 6,7 | cannot be regarded as a commandment of the Apostles or as a
1420 5,3 | becoming transgressors of his commandments.”[27]~ The contents of the
1421 7,4 | occasional compositions commemorating victories, birth, death,
1422 8,17| called by a Latin word, commendatio, or sometimes by a German
1423 8,17| distributed benefices, received commendations, and used immunities. In
1424 2,2 | daring remark without any comment and continued the offering
1425 3,16| of the Blessed Easterns (Commentarii de Beatis Onentalibus),
1426 9,18| classical texts. While the commentators and copyists of the eleventh
1427 4,3 | him against the imperial commissioner, who would have lost his
1428 9,4 | peninsula. But the Serbian kings committed a strategic error in failing
1429 7,3 | according to agreement; then a committee formed of six Venetians
1430 8,17| or the western European commondatio-mundium was also well known in Byzantium.
1431 3,2 | the Empire from further commotions. In her religious preferences
1432 5,8 | smaller peninsulas could communicate only by sea. After the Italian
1433 7,3 | commune” (oculi capitales communis).~ Concerning the epoch
1434 9,17| vague tendency towards a communistic movement.”[324] On the other
1435 7,3 | rule of the dynasty of the Comneni-Angeli. Finally, on the remote
1436 7,4 | time of Alexius and Manuel Comnenius.~ The chief energies of
1437 4,1 | possessions and collided with the compact Slavonic population of the
1438 2,2 | friend of Julian and his companion in military campaigns, explained
1439 2,5 | where discussions on the compatibility of ancient paganism with
1440 2,1 | Constantine, Christianity seemed compatible with paganism. The great
1441 2,3 | in peace, since they were competing for power. Besides these
1442 2,2 | the ambitions of various competitors. This system was also meant
1443 6,8 | a lofty monument of the compilatory diligence of Byzantine scholars
1444 3,16| Sabas. Cyril wanted to compile a large collection of monastic “
1445 3,5 | the arbitrariness of the compiler but to a desire to adapt
1446 8,17| kings had early begun to complain that their treasury was
1447 7,4 | mind and to declare the compliance of God with the sack of
1448 5,8 | The pope was very glad to comply with this request, Latin
1449 3,5 | literal translations and to compose brief paraphrases and extracts.~
1450 4,1 | was a sort of explosive compound, thrust out by special tubes
1451 8,10| unlimited and granted by God and comprehending supreme sovereignty over
1452 6,8 | Digenes cycle presents a comprehensive picture of the Byzantine
1453 7,1 | he wrote: “My lips are compressed; first of all, the passage
1454 9,2 | Crusade. In 1261 the Empire comprised the northwestern corner
1455 9,12| rumors which more or less compromised persons in government authority.
1456 7,4 | the twelfth century may be computed at between 800,000 and 1,
1457 9,6 | fast with their kinsfolk, comrades, and friends in the morning,
1458 7,3 | the Greeks by means of a concave mirror which strongly reflected
1459 4 | arbitrariness, but also to the concealed dissatisfaction of those
1460 2,2 | the insane, except that we concede indulgence to all for this
1461 8,14| and the church service, conceding, for example, the use of
1462 7,4 | Allegories Tzetzes said conceitedly, “Thus, I am starting my
1463 8,17| species of feudalism and is a concept used in the narrower sense
1464 6,7 | fruitless all efforts at conciliation between the Empire of Constantinople
1465 6,4 | treaty were expressed more concretely under Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
1466 2,5 | doctrine even after the condemnations of the council of 451 and
1467 4,1 | in causing congestion and condensation of the population in the
1468 2,3 | the barbarians] kindly and condescendingly, gave them the rank of allies,
1469 9,3 | provided them with special safe conducts and provisions.[51] At Lyons
1470 2,2 | these writers, they thereby confess that they are most shamefully
1471 7,4 | philosophical system did not conform to the doctrine of the Church;”
1472 3,5 | completely supplanted it.[50]~ In conformity with the new legislative
1473 2,1 | information on this point is so confusing and contradictory that it
1474 4,4 | extinguished works in the course of confuting them.~ Maximus Confessor
1475 9,2 | bride, turned to the near, congenial, and kindred East.[29]~
1476 5,5 | exiled to Cyprus,” and he was congratulated by Constantine V, who wrote: “
1477 4,1 | sovereign of India sent his congratulations to Heraclius on his victory
1478 2,2 | religious parties and their congregations to the palace and announced
1479 9,6 | miles about. There are many conies, and it is covered with
1480 3,15| attacked the Byzantine Empire conjointly with the Slavs. This particular
1481 2,2 | out, by means of certain conjuring formulas, not only ordinary
1482 9,18| of the Comneni; and the connecting link between these two periods,
1483 6,2 | Trajan or Belisarius” and a conquerer of “nearly thousands of
1484 3,9 | relevant here. The author conscientiously informed his reader about
1485 2,4 | Emperor immediately after his consecration: “Give me, my prince, the
1486 9,14| to 1378 the seven popes consecutively occupying the throne of
1487 3,16| America to lay bare and conserve the mosaics of St. Sophia.
1488 2,3 | city gates. John was very considerate of the orthodox Goths. He
1489 9,9 | destroyed, without which no one considers himself a learned man.[232]~ ~
1490 5,6 | who have gone astray, the consoler of those who are in distress;
1491 9,18| sources, Beccus was a man of conspicuous intellect and education.
1492 2,2 | away with the conflicts and conspiracies originating in the ambitions
1493 7,1 | and perjurer, ambitious conspirator and intriguer, terrible
1494 6,7 | and were thus enabled to conspire against the central government.
1495 8,10| Emperor is the ivy.[76]~ ~Constance-Anna survived her husband by
1496 2,2 | death ended the dynasty of Constaniine the Great, was followed
1497 2,1 | Edict of Milan were: Kaiser Constantin und die christliche Kirche,
1498 6,7 | of Constantine (Donatio Constantini), which had presumably placed
1499 9,2 | Constantine” (i.e., a new Constantinople-Tsargrad).[32] A Russian scholar
1500 9,15| the igumen (abbot) of a Constantinopohtan monastery, Isidore, the
1501 6,6 | Legation (Relatio de legatione constantinopolitana), it appears that the Byzantine
1502 9,9 | and soldiers intermingled; Constantinopolitans, Venetians and Genoese,
1503 9,8 | received by the despot (Constantinum cognomento Dragas) and his
1504 5,3 | that the Ecloga of Leo and Constanttne later formed part of the
1505 4 | Greek form of his name, Constas (Latin, Constans), is probably
1506 8,17| Several elements later became constituent parts of feudalism. Precarium
1507 9,18| ideal of his own, a sort of constitutional monarchy. Diehl remarked; “
1508 3,9 | the attacks of enemies by constructing a number of fortresses and
1509 3,9 | convinced that the number of constructions would seem to them fabulous