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1510 2,2 | of God, unbegotten, and consubstantial (of one essence) with His
1511 8,17| exigentes, quam quod facere consueverant temporibus graecorum imperatorum).[
1512 3,16| with the abolition of the consulate in 541.~ Almost all the
1513 8,13| stations with churches and consuls were to be established in
1514 2,4 | Responsa papae Nicolai ad consulta Bulgarorum), announced that
1515 6,4 | the banks of the Danube he consulted his druzhina (company) and
1516 2,4 | in his “Responses to the Consults of the Bulgarians” (Responsa
1517 4,1 | whatever (quasi vilissima contemnentes). Woe! The Christians have
1518 3,8 | Vandals, as well as the newly contemplated campaigns, says the Novel, “
1519 3,8 | councilors were already contemplating flight when Theodora rose
1520 4,4 | living ethical problems of contemplative asceticism, the blessed
1521 3,4 | thirteen years this was contemporaneous with the Vandal war. Justinian
1522 4,1 | of Christian books they contemptuously answer that they deserve
1523 2,5 | Altaï-Iran and in Armenia. He contended, “What Hellas was to the
1524 6,7 | spiritual joining free from any contention and schism, a church one
1525 7,1 | of the eleventh century continental Hungary, under the kings
1526 6,8 | glory even from the two continents; the Nile irrigates the
1527 8,13| honorably remembered for his continuance of his father’s successful
1528 6,8 | of Theophanes (Theophanes Continuarus), who described events from
1529 9,18| magnificent fullness and complete continuity the trends of the eleventh
1530 9,7 | with parts of the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau,
1531 4,1 | with alternate periods of contraction and expansion.”[55]~ In
1532 4,3 | those canons which did not contradict the true faith, good morals,
1533 9,6 | Miloš) Obilić or Kobilić, contrived to force a passage into
1534 7,4 | who divided the work, for convenience of quotation, into the first
1535 4,1 | north. These cities were convenient stopping points for the
1536 7,4 | council of the igumens), the convent of St. Panteleimon, which
1537 9,18| and state. Formalism and conventionalism were the characteristics
1538 8,17| and economic phenomenon conventionally called feudalism belonged
1539 5,4 | monastic communes, and convents of all kinds which multiplied
1540 7,4 | Hades and reproduces his conversations with the dead men whom he
1541 6,3 | monarchs greeted each other and conversed; Romanus’ speech has been
1542 9,7 | remained on his own galley, and conversing from the galleys in a friendly
1543 9,7 | relics, and begged him to convey to Constantinople the money
1544 9,9 | the wretched Muhammed” conveyed close to the city walls “
1545 5,3 | or nose, or blinding the convict. But this fact does not
1546 6,5 | which survives today, proves convincingly that the language of the
1547 9,12| said this was “the last convulsion before the death of the
1548 2,3 | Goth] slave; they serve as cooks and cupbearers; also those
1549 3,2 | significant parts. By her coolheaded actions and unusual energy
1550 8,10| religious problems much more coolly than his contemporaries.
1551 4,1 | the lack of solidarity and coordination toward a common end, and
1552 9,4 | Cephisus, near the Lake of Copais (near the modern village
1553 9,7 | there existed a school for copiers of ancient manuscripts.
1554 7,1 | purpose Charlemagne sent copious “alms” to Palestine. Libraries
1555 3,16| Egypt, the Aphrodito. A Copt by birth, he seems to have
1556 2,5 | political supremacy, while the Copts in Egypt and the Syrians
1557 9,13| piety with confidence and cordial simplicity, when, through
1558 8,11| sent to the papal court and cordially received by Pope Innocent
1559 4,1 | ninth century the bishop of Cordoba, Alvaro, complained in one
1560 3,4 | of Carthage, Málaga, and Córduba, and then in extending the
1561 4,1 | structure rotten at the core.”[46] Thus the list of primary
1562 4,1 | his sermons:~ ~Many of my coreligionists read verses and fairy tales
1563 9,18| the request of some noble Corfiotes.[352] Wholly indebted for
1564 2,5 | and, so to speak, laid the cornerstone for Christian art of the
1565 7,4 | suspicious of the gatherer of cornstalks; but he who rendered unto
1566 7,3 | important seaports, Modon and Coron, which were excellent stations
1567 9,4 | Barcelona (the archives de la Corona d’Aragó), has come to light
1568 9,17| of the court ceremonial, coronations, and promotions to one or
1569 8,16| from teaching George and correcting various failures of his
1570 5,8 | based on deep conviction the correctness of the iconodulist views.
1571 8,16| pupil and later a friend and correspondent of Michael Acominatus, whose
1572 7,4 | passion and resurrection, or corruptible (φθαρτον), as it was before
1573 9,4 | in the sixteenth century, Cortez and Pizarro; he does not
1574 9,18| striking impression upon Cosimo Medici and other Italian
1575 3,9 | Christian Topography or Cosmography, written by Cosmas Indicopleustes[
1576 6,4 | Patzinaks, offering them costly gifts and promising to pay
1577 3,9 | the West perfumes, spices, cotton, precious stones, and other
1578 3,8 | mistaken. All his decrees couid not change mankind. It is
1579 3,8 | palace, Justinian and his councilors were already contemplating
1580 6,2 | a man of such and such a countenance and condition whom thou
1581 5,6 | western empire which would counterbalance the Eastern Empire. Charles
1582 7,2 | brother. It was a kind of countercrusade against the Christians.
1583 5,6 | from the year 812 that as a counterpoise to the title yielded to
1584 8,17| place of the duchies and counties of western Europe.[229]
1585 9,9 | did not attack his Greek countrymen. A Greek of Asia Minor,
1586 7,1 | in the east, because the county of Edessa, because of its
1587 9,4 | Roger and his companions as courageous and noble fighters for a
1588 7,1 | in Manuel’s camp, he was courteously received by the Emperor.
1589 6,6 | ancient city formerly serve courtesans? And then, in a time when
1590 2,2 | his family spared only two cousins, Gallus and Julian, whom
1591 3,15| new and different races cover the graves of the ancient
1592 9,17| dignitaries, their various coverings for the head, their shoes,
1593 3,13| who swells in heart, who covets in a name of singularity,
1594 8,13| many difficulties and the cowardice and treachery of his generals,
1595 6,7 | into the general class of craft or trade associations, namely
1596 9,7 | moment when Bayazid, by craftiness, gathered together in one
1597 8,13| Empire. At this time the crafty and ambitious Michael Palaeologus,
1598 9,6 | which crown the needle-like crags of the grim valley of Kalabaka.”[
1599 7,1 | his anger higher than the craters of Etna,” as the contemporary
1600 4,1 | material, earthly benefits, and craved spoils and unrestrained
1601 7,3 | reward in the life to come, craving for spiritual action, and
1602 6,8 | the Patzinaks, “who had crawled out of their caves.”[156]
1603 5,8 | still smoking,” “like a crawling snake the tail of heresy
1604 7,3 | noviter quasi nova Francia est creata).~ The Peloponnesus feudaries
1605 8,1 | in the East reacted not creatively, but destructively,” said
1606 7,1 | transported to Palermo were the creators of the silk production and
1607 4,1 | unlimited in his power over His creatures. The Muhammedan religion
1608 5,8 | iconoclastic policy. One source credits the Emperor with these words: “
1609 5,8 | contemporaries called Leo “the creeping snake,” and compared his
1610 6,6 | Liudprand, the bishop of Cremona, who had been once before
1611 7,4 | there are very thievish men, Cretans and Turks, Alans, Rhodians
1612 4,1 | of numerous vessels whose crews had to be gathered at first
1613 7,1 | eastern Christians. With cries of “Deus lo volt” (“God
1614 7,4 | period. In spite of the crippled financial condition, Alexius,
1615 2,3 | might have led to very grave crises in the life of the Empire.~
1616 9,18| 429]~ In 1917 D. Aïnalov criticized Diehl’s solution from the
1617 7,4 | the cry of vultures or croak of crow.”~ In the field
1618 9,3 | on a real Yellow Crusade (Croisade Jaune) against Islam.” Finally,
1619 7,1 | violent, and ‘walking in crooked ways,’ because it is composed
1620 2,2 | abolished, and the shining crosses on the soldiers’ shields
1621 2,3 | streets, markets, squares, crossroads. I ask how many oboli I
1622 7,4 | of vultures or croak of crow.”~ In the field of literature
1623 3,8 | nobility and in spite of crowding into this libel a number
1624 2,3 | who contributed much to crowning his period with such important
1625 4,2 | convicted by a jury and cruelly mutilated. Maximus died
1626 9,6 | singing near the palace, “crying out in incomprehensible
1627 2,5 | new tax, the chrysoteleia (χρυσοτελεια), a “gold tax,” or “a tax
1628 4,1 | the sanctuary Kaaba (the Cube) which was originally distinctly
1629 4,1 | distinctly non-Arabic. It was a cube-shaped stone building, about thirty-five
1630 2,3 | to the Cappadocian city Cucusus, which he reached only after
1631 3,11| Negotiations however did not culminate in the formation of a real
1632 9,7 | into three classes: (1) the cultivators of the soil (ploughmen,
1633 9,12| ecclesiastical offices with cultured and educated men. As they
1634 5,5 | was the persecution of the cultus of the Blessed Virgin.[90]
1635 7,2 | of Peter and Asen to the Cuman-Bulgarian racial elements in northern
1636 6,5 | the eleventh century. The Cumanian dictionary or lexicon, which
1637 5,8 | the Belgian scholar, Franz Cumont, this opinion has been recognized
1638 6,2 | he sent for one of his cup-bearers and said to him, ‘There
1639 2,3 | they serve as cooks and cupbearers; also those who walk along
1640 3,5 | eager to know the laws” (cupidae legum juventuti).[48]~ During
1641 6,7 | obvious disease” of excessive cupidity has become widely spread
1642 2,2 | against their will, as one cures the insane, except that
1643 2,5 | which the town corporations (curiae) were responsible for collecting
1644 9,18| attention, by inspiring us with curiosity, and of not letting us fall
1645 9,18| Roumanians, with interesting and curious digressions, quite in the
1646 5,5 | rejected and removed and cursed out of the Christian Church
1647 8,14| withdraw, loaded with the curses of the Greeks gathered there,
1648 3,4 | The Emperor’s attempts to curtail the expenditures of the
1649 3,16| peak of a rapidly rising curve. The historian of Belisarius,
1650 2,1 | triumphal arch, quietis custos (custodian of peace) … We have sought
1651 2,1 | triumphal arch, quietis custos (custodian of peace) … We
1652 4 | surnamed Rhinotmetus (“with a cut-off nose”), ruled twice, from
1653 6,8 | migrations, so the Digenes cycle presents a comprehensive
1654 9,6 | with a stab from a poisoned dagger. The confusion among the
1655 4,1 | The king of the Franks, Dagobert, sent special ambassadors
1656 7,1 | the Frenchman M. Choiseul Daillecourt, Upon the Influence of the
1657 7,4 | Alexius I Comnenus, Anna Dalassena, whom her learned granddaughter
1658 3,4 | army began the conquest of Dalmada, which at this time formed
1659 5,8 | all the way from the most damnatory to the most eulogistic statements.
1660 9,7 | Christians], his sons might dance in the Christian land without
1661 9,6 | admitted into the capital were dancing and singing near the palace, “
1662 9,9 | expulsion from France. Scotch, Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians,
1663 7,1 | smaller bands. In 1097 a Danish noble, Svein, led a band
1664 7,1 | Emir Malik Ghazi of the Danishmand dynasty, who at the very
1665 7,1 | Cappadocia, the above‑mentioned Danishmandites, and began a war against
1666 6,8 | the monastery church of Daphni in Attica (the end of the
1667 6,8 | VI (813-86), and Theodore Daphnopates, who wrote a historical
1668 3 | back to Roman colonists of Dardania, i.e., upper Macedonia.[
1669 2,2 | was occupied first by the Dardanian dynasty of Constantine,
1670 5,5 | painters. Whoever in the future dares to make such a thing or
1671 9,9 | Constantinople, the sun was darkened.”[233]~ The fall of Constantinople
1672 2,5 | Eusebius did not touch upon the darker sides of the epoch, did
1673 9,3 | portrayed by historians so darkly as Charles of Anjou, and
1674 7,1 | before us, hast lifted it and dashed it down!”~ ~ ~Policies of
1675 9,18| the marriage of one of the daughters of Andronicus II.[401]~
1676 2,2 | intently at the sun in the daytime, but on clear nights he
1677 6,8 | movement of the Seljuqs was the deadliest menace to the Empire.~ ~
1678 6,7 | silk goods and dresses, dealers in raw silk, sellers of
1679 8,9 | resort to the sword in his dealings with his subjects and did
1680 7,1 | majority of people, was dearer than God himself,” or, at
1681 8,15| the Empire. In times of dearth the large supplies of corn
1682 7,1 | from the capital. On his deathbed, he named his younger son
1683 7,1 | 1071 had already been a deathblow to Byzantine domination
1684 6,8 | of his time, such as the deaths of Nicephorus Phocas and
1685 9,18| Chronicle is still under debate: some scholars hold to the
1686 7,1 | et sub nostro gubernari debeat imperio); therefore he bade
1687 8,17| under the Greek emperors (debemus in suo statu tenere, nihil
1688 9,14| Venetians as an insolvent debtor and released only when his
1689 App | Romanus Lecapenus' sons. Dec. 944-Jan. 945.~~~~~~Romanus
1690 7,1 | this time into definite decadence. Hertzberg commented: “with
1691 9,6 | Boccaccio was writing his famous Decameron which begins “with a description
1692 5,5 | century A.D. St. Gregory the Decapolite fell into the hands of an
1693 2,2 | The Senate enrolled the deceased emperor among the gods.~ ~
1694 9,7 | s presentiments did not deceive him.~ Byzantium, or rather,
1695 4,1 | can write to a friend a decent greeting letter in Latin.
1696 5,6 | other insurgents, might decide to advance toward Constantinople
1697 2,3 | and Thrace. The Emperor Decius marched against them and
1698 9,18| intermingled with theological declamation and foreign and popular
1699 5,4 | were used in profusion for decorating Christian temples. The images
1700 8,8 | East] has decreased and is decreasing while their adversaries
1701 2,2 | Constantine found it possible to dedicate the new capital officially.
1702 8,17| quondam defunctus Imperator dedit patri meo).[213] Another
1703 9,18| of his day. This may be deduced from some specimens of his
1704 5,3 | on the basis of certain deductions, which do not, however,
1705 5,8 | manufacture of Greek fire, deeming it bad policy to enlighten
1706 8,13| having the heart of a shy deer,”[102] took refuge as a
1707 3,2 | The Secret History was to defame Justinian and Theodora.
1708 2,4 | had a threefold series of defenses, the two walls separated
1709 3,7 | writing to defend them (ad defensionem eorum).”[74] The decrees
1710 3,11| discussion of this war is deferred because, while it was of
1711 6,7 | when news of this act of defiance reached John VIII he anathematized
1712 3,12| spite of this linguistic deficiency he was very well acquainted
1713 3,4 | the enemy who had so long defied his power was no more.”[
1714 5,4 | the saints, because it “defiled the church.”[72] In the
1715 5,4 | because it does not fully define the period. His belief is
1716 5,8 | mainly with the problem of defining the border lines between
1717 7,4 | Scythian) leaders, which “deform the loftiness and subject
1718 8,13| destruction and anarchy. That deformed chivalrous feudal state
1719 8,17| quod et Manuel quondam defunctus Imperator dedit patri meo).[
1720 7,4 | belonged, said Diehl, to a degenerate class in Constantinople,
1721 9,17| all this weakened and degraded the power of the Byzantine
1722 7,4 | His grace and generosity, deign to make of it the capital
1723 9,18| at the hands of Paris and Deiphobos, and the sack of the city
1724 2,1 | referred to “honest and calm deism, which, was shaping Constantine’
1725 8,14| new negotiations.[136] The delegate was supplied with both official
1726 4,4 | Stein explained it as a deliberate intention on the part of
1727 2,3 | hands with Tribigild, he deliberately arranged the defeat of the
1728 9,18| orations may be noted two “deliberative” orations (συμβουλευτικοι)
1729 9,19| having aroused in me the most delightful hope, died and left me at
1730 2,2 | small serpent column from Delphi (fifth century B.C), erected
1731 8,5 | wrecked in the universal deluge take refuge in thy state
1732 6,3 | the leadership of Peter Delyan, was suppressed and resulted
1733 8,17| Athenian documents on the demarcation of litigable lands on Mount
1734 2,2 | teach, but not punish, the demented.”[81]~ ~Ammianus Marcellinus,
1735 9,19| talent, made him almost a demigod. In his funeral oration
1736 4,1 | which they called djinn (demons). Among the Arabs the conception
1737 3,3 | respect for the Empire, in demonstrating in many ways their subservience
1738 2,5 | Demonstration (Ευαγγελικη αποδειξις, Demonstratio evangelica), in which he
1739 6,8 | assumed the aspect of street demonstrations. The Emperor found a good
1740 3,10| universally in a state of demoralization.”[115] The events of this
1741 5,2 | seventy thousand dinars (denarii) in semiannual instalments.
1742 9,7 | presented to the abbey of St. Denis near Paris an illuminated
1743 4,4 | referred to as themes, but denoted by the Latin word exercitus (
1744 5,4 | it is easy to imagine how dense must have been the net of
1745 9,19| of the Gods (Genealogia deorum) calls Barlaam a man “with
1746 9,9 | that the service for its departing spirit should be thus publicly
1747 6,8 | preserved. The philosophical department, headed by the famous scholar
1748 3,16| Corippus are at times more dependable than those given by Procopius.
1749 9,3 | sultanate of Rum, it was a mere dependency of the Mongol Empire. Still,
1750 6,7 | armies composed of their dependents, and were thus enabled to
1751 5,3 | them to one time or another depends upon internal evidence,
1752 9,19| Leontius in their writings, and depict in a similar way the refractory,
1753 5,4 | et adoratur in parietibus depingatur).[70]~ In the fourth century,
1754 8,17| that their treasury was depleted and their riches had passed
1755 3,16| to the impoverishment and depopulation of villages, particularly
1756 6,7 | the year 1054, the legates deposited upon the altar of St. Sophia
1757 9,3 | to work and exploit rich deposits of alum in the mountains
1758 7,4 | other.” This reason alone deprives Chiliads of any great literary
1759 9,2 | approved the candidate. A deputation was sent to Morea, which
1760 9,3 | Seljucids were the mere deputies of the Mongols of Persia,
1761 5,6 | capacity of God’s temporary deputy could the emperor exercise
1762 8,17| εξκουσσεια), which with the derivative verb (εξκουσσευειν, εξκουσσευεσθαι)
1763 8,17| feudalism. Some scholars derive it from Germanic or Roman
1764 6,8 | Constantine Kephalas. It derives its name from the only manuscript,
1765 9,7 | the Peloponnesus-Morea, deriving the latter name in the form
1766 9,17| state of decay (ecclesia jam derupta).[298] None the less, pious
1767 2,5 | was Synesius of Cyrene. A descendant of a very old pagan family,
1768 9,13| mountain with Him created and describable and differing in nothing
1769 9,6 | presented himself as a deserter to the Turks, and entering
1770 2,5 | becoming convinced of the desirability of seceding from the Byzantine
1771 8,16| where Rodophilos, who has despaired of seeing his son again,
1772 8,5 | great desolation, so that despairing of our return (from Asia
1773 7,4 | robbers than collectors, despising both divine laws and imperial
1774 3,16| a vicious libel upon the despotic rule of Justinian and his
1775 7,3 | the Latins as a tidbit or dessert,” fled. Constantinople passed
1776 8,2 | emperor calls him a “great destroyer of Greece” (magnus populator
1777 8,1 | reacted not creatively, but destructively,” said one historian, “and
1778 9,13| concentration the Hesychast has to detach himself from all imagination,
1779 7,3 | city upon the walls did not deter the assailants. A historian
1780 3,6 | as a cultural center and deteriorated into a quiet, second-rate
1781 7,1 | of the Greeks and their detestable king (regis) to our pilgrims ....
1782 9,3 | ejusdem Imperii Romaniae, quod detinetur per Paleologum).[53] Avast
1783 9,13| support of the Hesychasts — to deviate from the strict Orthodoxy
1784 7,3 | crusaders blameworthy for their deviation from their original aim.
1785 9,9 | and other wall-battering devices.”[214] The contemporary
1786 2,4 | It became necessary to devise new means for the defense
1787 8,2 | complicated and difficult task devolved upon Theodore Lascaris,
1788 5,8 | iconoclastic movement, it devotes more space to it than was
1789 6,7 | to God and his nocturnal devotions; he maintained a very high
1790 7,1 | follow the steps, and to devour the leavings, of the lion.”
1791 8,10| rapacious wolves and wild beasts devouring the people of Christ.”[83]~
1792 9,9 | delight the credulous or devout.”[227]~ It has usually been
1793 2,1 | that Constantine, “with the diabolical perspicacity of a world-master,
1794 9,17| festival most of the imperial diadems and garb showed only the
1795 9,18| the classics, a skillful dialectian, and an excellent stylist,
1796 9,18| of knowledge, in skill in dialectic, and in strength of character
1797 5,8 | grammar, rhetoric, and dialectics, and the quadrivium, arithmetic,
1798 6,5 | between them is only that of dialects. For future historical developments
1799 8,16| in Venice; “there was a diaspora [dispersion] of the painters.
1800 5,8 | bishops did not follow the dictates of their convictions, but
1801 9,3 | reges et dominos perpetuos dicti Regni).[44] An Italian historian
1802 7,2 | dominus itemque a suis dictus imperator Grecie). Finally,
1803 9,18| quae de Deo a theologis dicuntur, the first attempt at dogmatics
1804 9,7 | the throne of majesty thou didst lord it over all the world,
1805 2,2 | asunder not only by political differences, but by religious ones as
1806 3,8 | and others who fail to differentiate between the demes and the
1807 3,5 | was called the “Digest” (Digestum), or the “Pandects” (Pandectae),
1808 5,8 | qualities which adorn and dignify human nature attract the
1809 5,6 | Another is the imperial dignitary and secular possessor of
1810 3,5 | Hercules” (hoc opus Hercule dignum), but unfortunately it was
1811 9,18| interesting and curious digressions, quite in the style of Herodotus,
1812 3,16| was in a state of complete dilapidation. Justinian pulled it down
1813 6,8 | individuals continued to work diligently and spend long nights over
1814 9,3 | in his true light, as a dim precursor of the political
1815 2,2 | astonished by the wide dimensions planned for the capital,
1816 7,3 | three-eighths (quartae partis et dimidiae totius imperii Romanie dominator);
1817 8,15| Theodore’s policy was to diminish the influence of the aristocracy,
1818 8,15| the imperial treasury. By diminishing taxes Vatatzes succeeded
1819 2,5 | burdens rather than a real diminution of them.[155] Perhaps the
1820 4 | Constans), is probably a diminutive of Constantine, his official
1821 5,2 | ninety or seventy thousand dinars (denarii) in semiannual
1822 9,14| the same day the Emperor dined with the pope; all the cardinals
1823 2,2 | and controlled both the diocesan and the provincial governors.
1824 2,2 | together in a unit called a diocese under the control of an
1825 9,17| Miklosich and Müller, Acta et diplomata graeca medii aevi, as well
1826 3,4 | part of John Troglita, a diplomatist as well as a talented general.
1827 8,2 | stage one of the greatest diplomatists Bulgaria had ever borne.”[
1828 7,1 | acknowledge his power. Byzantine diplomats began to work actively in
1829 3,16| particularly among the diptych-leaves and the special group of
1830 5,8 | Russian princes, Ascold and Dir. But since 1894, when a
1831 2,5 | had assumed to itself a directive power,” the epoch which
1832 8,16| Belthandros’ life, the king directs him to select, of forty
1833 4,4 | This work has also the disadvantage of being based in some places
1834 7,1 | Constantinopolitan Church, which disagrees with us concerning the Holy
1835 9,5 | Turks. Dushan was doomed to disappointment; it became obvious that
1836 7,1 | river.~ Historians strongly disapprove of Bernard’s idea of adding
1837 2,5 | Alexandrian” school, still did not discard the church tradition. In
1838 7,1 | that it is difficult to discern his real features; in reality,
1839 7,3 | in the mind of the keenly discerning and clever Dandolo, a plan
1840 5,7 | iconoclastic” epoch and disclose in it more profound meaning
1841 8,16| conception and character, in disclosing his own ‘Ego,’ in the methods
1842 8,13| and exult.”[115] Still a discordant note sounded in the words
1843 2,2 | especially the sky. In his discourse on the “King Sun,”[91] the
1844 8,16| Belthandros: at dawn the guard discovers the couple, seizes Belthandros,
1845 5,4 | atheistic and heretical, thus discrediting the movement: and undermining
1846 3,8 | for a time their religious discrepancies, made common cause against
1847 3,9 | each of them thoroughly. He discriminated between his own observations
1848 5,3 | without any real basis for the discrimination. The Ecloga is distinguished
1849 9,3 | remarked, “The Sicilians disdaining the rest of Charles’ force
1850 9,6 | Tenedos, where we anchored and disembarked. While the ship was being
1851 7,1 | general the West regarded with disfavor the alliance between the “
1852 8,16| 161] Under the rhetorical disguise of his treatise one may
1853 9,7 | other their most delicate dishes from their tables.[182]
1854 2,3 | highest esteem has become dishonorable because of the influence
1855 9,12| monasteries, and sometimes even by dishonored members of the imperial
1856 3,10| loosed from prison; the disintegrating elements began to operate
1857 7,2 | scholarly detachment and disinterestedness. On the basis of reliable
1858 2,2 | election of any professor he disliked. Formerly the appointment
1859 9,2 | scholar, Diehl, “a slender, dislocated, miserable body upon which
1860 7,1 | dear, since not only did it dislodge her from her old settlements
1861 7,1 | the Greeks of perfidy and disloyalty to the crusaders. Such charges
1862 9,9 | first of all was seized with dismay at the thought of the future
1863 9,3 | that impossible, for it dismembered and weakened the south-Italian
1864 3,8 | Justinian’s promise to dismiss Tribonian and John of Cappadocia
1865 7,1 | pardon Andronicus, who was dismissed by Yaroslav from Galich
1866 2,2 | Julian did not formally disobey this imperial command, but
1867 2,3 | It also declared all who disobeyed these orders guilty of offense
1868 9,6 | started, as far as the disordered finances of the Empire permitted,
1869 6,8 | always merely errant and disorderly pillagers.”[152] The successor
1870 9,17| and well-organized state. Disorganization in all parts of the state
1871 7,1 | legally as their master, they disparage next year as a criminal.”~
1872 7,1 | That such messages were dispatched also to the West is shown
1873 6,7 | was determined to grant a dispensation to the Emperor without dissolving
1874 8,13| capital by the crusaders, the “dispersal” of its numberless treasures
1875 8,16| there was a diaspora [dispersion] of the painters. These
1876 5,8 | desolation which was destined to displace, sooner or later, all the
1877 6,8 | expression in ceremonies and displays, the spirit of an Alexius
1878 6,7 | in southern Italy greatly displeased the Eastern church. Leo
1879 7,3 | Nicaea was particularly displeasing to the pope; there the Greek
1880 6,7 | In spite of the pope’s displeasure and the opposition of the
1881 7,1 | Romanum imperium nostro disponatur moderamine, verum etiam
1882 2,1 | without any annoyance or disquiet. These things we thought
1883 9,12| wanderers, madmen, and other disreputable people — men of unknown
1884 2,5 | all to avoid any sign of disrespect toward either the orthodox
1885 5,4 | iconoclastic emperors. In order to disseminate their ideas, the iconoclasts
1886 5,8 | expressed his assent or dissent by motions of his head.
1887 3,1 | suggested gentleness toward the dissidents: “You will conciliate the
1888 6,7 | dispensation to the Emperor without dissolving his fourth marriage. After
1889 7,4 | all his lost honors and distinctions, and enabled him to devote
1890 7,1 | religious aim and possessed a distinctively Christian character … The
1891 9,6 | and islands of Italy, to distract the Genoese and thereby
1892 7,1 | take full advantage of the distractions of the Turks because of
1893 9,18| turning with horror from the distressing events of the political
1894 7,4 | eleventh century fell into disuse. Under the Comneni the title
1895 9,9 | the Polish historian Jan Diugosz, wrote in his History of
1896 2,3 | denominations, in spite of their divergence as to dogma. Some scholars
1897 7,4 | evokes among scholars great divergences of judgment, for it is not
1898 3,8 | capital were numerous and diverse. The opposition directed
1899 9,11| so that the Emperor, in diverting all his forces to the East,
1900 5,8 | sciences of astrology and divination. Legendary tradition claims
1901 4,1 | their state of barbarism (Djahiliyya in Arabic), and inculcate
1902 2,5 | now the mosque Mir-Achor djami.~ A number of monuments
1903 4,1 | forces which they called djinn (demons). Among the Arabs
1904 9,7 | Russian great prince Vasili I Dmitrievich. The pope, Venice, France,
1905 2,3 | Don and lower Danube. The Dniester divided the Goths into two
1906 9,17| be repaired;” that “the dockyard must have been magnificent;
1907 3,1 | mildness and clemency. That doctor is justly praised who eagerly
1908 5,8 | historians, natural scientists, doctors, councils, and the lives
1909 8,17| Kingdom of Jerusalem, Gaston Dodu, wrote: “The Assises de
1910 9,7 | heard neither barking of dog, nor cackling of fowl, nor
1911 8,2 | The Greeks surnamed him “Dog-John” (in Greek Skyloioannes);[
1912 9,9 | this perfidious Turk, dog-Turk,”[213] was the first sovereign
1913 7,3 | this title was used by the doges until the middle of the
1914 3,16| others. On the life of this dogmatist and polemic there is very
1915 3,16| dome between four other domes. Again the architects of
1916 6,7 | can we fail to crush our domestic and internal enemies of
1917 6,2 | and Arab armies. The Greek domesticus John Curcuas was, in the
1918 9,9 | was “a real abode [velut domicilium proprium] of literature
1919 7,3 | dimidiae totius imperii Romanie dominator); this title was used by
1920 9,6 | Savoy (in manibus prefati domini Sabaudie comitis), who was
1921 9,9 | formerly in the church of S. Dominic in the citadel has apparently
1922 7,3 | the Lord” (gavisi sumus in Domino) at the miracle effected “
1923 9,3 | nostros elegerunt in reges et dominos perpetuos dicti Regni).[
1924 6,8 | things, a list of books donated to the monasterial library.~
1925 6,7 | Donation of Constantine (Donatio Constantini), which had
1926 2,5 | such as horses, mules, donkeys, and dogs. The poor classes
1927 3,5 | professor in Constantinople, and Dorotheus, professor at Beirut (in
1928 7,4 | in verse, Rhodanphe and Dosicles, which some scholars call
1929 9,7 | against them. My God! What dost thou, ancient glory of Rome?
1930 3,6 | was in its church policy a double-faced Janus with one face turned
1931 9,4 | cradle, and carried the double-headed eagle of Byzantium victorious
1932 9,17| in general is not to be doubted. Class struggles and the
1933 9,18| situation of the empire.~ Ducas (Doukas), a Greek of Asia Minor,
1934 7,3 | whence, still a merry brook~Downward Eurotas rolls, and then,
1935 5,3 | of marriage, betrothal, dowry, testaments, and intestacies,
1936 7,1 | formerly Epidamnus; Slavonic Drach [Drač] now Durazzo) in Illyria.
1937 2,2 | that, for the sake of a few drachmae, they would put up with
1938 6,7 | remained only in the form of a draft,[111] while others hold
1939 5,8 | greatest number of soldiers was drafted from among the eastern nationalities,
1940 4,1 | infuriated beasts and irritated dragons.”[8] They pillaged the city
1941 7,1 | confinement through a neglected drain pipe; then he was caught
1942 9,4 | especially on account of its dramatic interest.[82] Finlay wrote
1943 7,4 | familiar with many poets, dramatists, historians, orators, philosophers,
1944 9,4 | between the rivers Sava and Drava began to enter into closer
1945 8,10| arms of their subjects nor dread the interference of the
1946 4,1 | opening. The eternal and dreaded Persian enemy was prostrated
1947 7,3 | Thou hast drunk to the dregs the cup of the anger of
1948 6,7 | traders in silk goods and dresses, dealers in raw silk, sellers
1949 6,8 | of an entirely different, drier, and more rigid art.~ ~The
1950 7,1 | suffered a terrific defeat at Dristra (Durostolus, Silistria),
1951 4,1 | own living by acting as a driver of camels in the trade caravans
1952 6,8 | natural sweetness falls in drops from it.”[180] Elsewhere
1953 7,1 | of frequent famines and drought and of violent epidemics
1954 9,3 | wicked, always ready to drown in blood the smallest resistance.”[
1955 4,4 | Cibyrrhaeot) theme was called the drungarius (vice-admiral), and the
1956 5,8 | frivolity, his persistent drunkenness, his horrible impiety and
1957 5,8 | Barlaam and Josaphat is dubiously attributed to John,[186]
1958 6,7 | included two clisurarchiae, one ducatus, and two archontatus. The
1959 7,2 | clearly the character of a duel between Christianity and
1960 7,3 | powerful than Boniface. He was duly elected Emperor and was
1961 7,4 | Woe to me! Why will you, O dunces, liken a monastic library
1962 6,8 | adventures. The deepest and most durable impression was left in the
1963 7,1 | terrific defeat at Dristra (Durostolus, Silistria), on the lower
1964 9,18| for four centuries in the dust of libraries. Is this their
1965 6,7 | investigations by Amann, Dvornik, and Grumel, however, have
1966 7,4 | men are very thievish who dwell in the capital of Constantine;
1967 9,4 | the ancient Illyrians, who dwelled along the eastern coast
1968 8,16| perhaps, he was not always “a dweller in another world, entirely
1969 5,5 | monasteries into common dwellings was severely condemned,
1970 7,4 | a shoemaker or tailor, a dyer or baker, for they have
1971 9,4 | carried the double-headed eagle of Byzantium victorious
1972 2,3 | toward the Arian Goths also earned him many enemies; it was
1973 2,5 | by participating in the earnings of prostitutes, the tax
1974 6,8 | eloquence exceedingly, and his ears were always attracted to
1975 5,4 | Paulicians, who lived in the east-central part of Asia Minor, was
1976 5,8 | of the clearly expressed eastern-orthodox point of view, very apparent
1977 7,1 | the Cross. But when the Easterners beheld swarms of illiterate
1978 3,16| Ways of Life of the Blessed Easterns (Commentarii de Beatis Onentalibus),
1979 6,2 | rich spoils, setting sail eastward to Syria. It was only after
1980 6,7 | plague or gangrene, which had eaten its way into the body of
1981 2,3 | favor of the government. Eater efforts of the Goths to
1982 2,2 | feeling that his strength was ebbing, he expressed the hope that
1983 2,2 | Trevirorum (Trier, Treves) and Eburacum (York). All four rulers
1984 3,6 | caput omnium sanctarum ecclesiarum),[62] and in one of his
1985 7,1 | country as if it were under an eclipse of the sun.”~Such a colorful
1986 2,5 | with its pagan academy, eclipsed in later years by its victorious
1987 8,16| the Odes of Horace or the Eclogues and Aeneid of Virgil are
1988 7,1 | rule, lived a strict and economical life; there were no more
1989 7,3 | the same time, an expert economist.~ At the beginning of the
1990 3,4 | expenditures of the state by economizing on the upkeep of the army
1991 7,1 | repopulated. The governor Zain‑ed‑Din, who was a good‑natured
1992 4,4 | these are the Cathedral of Edgmiatsin (Etschmiadzin), restored
1993 6,2 | eight thousand persons; the edifice, he said, was built with
1994 6,8 | popularity. His aim was to edit a very brief manual of law
1995 5,4 | was apparently unable to educate the people in the new spirit.[
1996 5,8 | attention and energy to educating others. His education had
1997 2,4 | to very high rank. This educational center at Constantinople
1998 7,3 | which was well known for its effeminacy.” A. participant in the
1999 3,6 | Athens, the last rampart of effete paganism, the decline of
2000 7,4 | undermined by the commercial efficiency and initiative of the Italian
2001 3,9 | Byzantine Empire some silkworm eggs from Serinda, which formed
2002 7,1 | they followed the military Egnatian road (via Egnatia) and marched
2003 7,1 | famous military road of Egnatius (via Egnatia), constructed
2004 8,16| in disclosing his own ‘Ego,’ in the methods of his
2005 9,6 | it for their own narrow, egoistic goals; Cantacuzene was no
2006 7,3 | thoughtfully pondered, and egoistically patriotic policy of Doge
2007 9,6 | chronicles, two-thirds or eight-ninths of the population.[133]
2008 7,1 | Sicily) who was about to eject the flame of his anger higher
2009 9,3 | Palaeologus” (ad recuperationem ejusdem Imperii Romaniae, quod detinetur