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4513 3,8 | forced almost immediately to revoke his measure.[93] All possible
4514 3,7 | wavered in his decision and revoked the Judicatum. Justinian
4515 6 | a time of frequent court revolutions and anarchy which led to
4516 2,2 | hexameter; the Gospels were rewritten in the style of Plato’s
4517 3,4 | the former provinces of Rhaetia and Noricum) still remained
4518 9,3 | the Netherlands and the Rhinelands.~ Few prominent figures
4519 7,4 | bombastic novel in verse, Rhodanphe and Dosicles, which some
4520 8,15| called himself “dominus Rhode et Cicladum insularum Ksserus
4521 5,3 | Rhodian Law of Jettison,” lex Rhodia de jactu, dealing with the
4522 7,4 | Cretans and Turks, Alans, Rhodians and Chians (of the island
4523 9,14| permanent residence on the Rhone, at Avignon, and were practically
4524 2,5 | made use of acrostics and rhyme.~ Scholars have long disputed
4525 2,5 | various types of acrostics and rhymes. Unfortunately very little
4526 2,5 | period. This “Pindar of rhythmical poetry, “[172] “the greatest
4527 9,15| Finally, in the Palazzo Riccardi, also at Florence, there
4528 2,5 | of his letters, which in richness of content and remarkable
4529 8,10| represents in many respects a riddle which has not yet been solved.[
4530 7,4 | gold embroidery, and they ride horses, and look like princes.
4531 8,17| the kavallarios, i.e. a rider, knight (in German Ritter), “
4532 7,3 | years, forlorn the sloping ridge~That northward to the height
4533 9,18| time he tried to abase, ridicule, and blacken his adversaries.
4534 9,13| quarrel. He distorted and ridiculed the Hesychast doctrine prevalent
4535 9,2 | Republic, the tribune Cola di Rienzo. Cantacuzene sent him an
4536 5,3 | Prophet, 'They sold the righteous for silver' (Amos 2:6),
4537 6,7 | on a throne which did not rightfully belong to him. He felt that
4538 6,8 | different, drier, and more rigid art.~ ~The Byzantine standards,
4539 7,4 | distinguished men whom life, by its rigors, had peculiarly abased,
4540 9,18| the small Italian city of Rimini, where they now repose in
4541 5,4 | pictures, and in Edessa the rioting soldiers flung stones at
4542 7,2 | other in expense and luxury. Riots took place in both the capital
4543 7,3 | clever Dandolo, a plan was ripening to conquer Byzantium in
4544 8,15| possible to aver that such risings of the aristocracy against
4545 5,3 | only by assuming a common risk.~ The time of the compilation
4546 2,1 | importance, would have meant a risky experiment; therefore, since
4547 7,1 | officiated according to their rite; “up to this day that church
4548 8,17| rider, knight (in German Ritter), “whose heart was set on
4549 4,1 | observance of prescribed rituals; (3) the contribution of
4550 7,1 | infidels. An atmosphere of rnutual distrust and malevolence
4551 3,8 | and how shamelessly they rob everything… State property
4552 7,1 | senseless wanderings and robberies of the Patzinaks.” It seemed
4553 4,1 | and allowed no murder or robbery. From that time Muhammed
4554 2,5 | bands of barbarians, after robbing the Byzantine population,
4555 8,7 | Theodore who “put on the purple robe and began to wear the red
4556 8,17| state and as a great many robust young men entered monasteries
4557 6,8 | Asia Minor the numerous rock-cut churches of Cappadocia have
4558 7,1 | mountains and the caves of the rocks, watching day and night,
4559 5,3 | the Rhodian Sea Law (νομος ροδιων ναυτικος). Varying versions
4560 8,16| Hellenized western names of Rodolph and Bertrand;[185] it has
4561 2,5 | art of the Roman Empire” (Römische Reichskunst), which had
4562 6,8 | legends, such as the Song of Roland of the time of Charlemagne,
4563 4,1 | two years. The two leading roles in this siege were played
4564 7,3 | merry brook~Downward Eurotas rolls, and then, along our vale~
4565 8,2 | all the cities, since the Romaeic state, many times divided
4566 8,2 | at the palace of a Greek (Romaic) state to a stay in his
4567 8,2 | the “slayer of Romans” (Romaioctonus, Romaioktonos). The Greeks
4568 8,2 | of Romans” (Romaioctonus, Romaioktonos). The Greeks surnamed him “
4569 5,6 | the Romans” (Βασιλευς των Ρωμαιων) began to be used officially
4570 3,11| result of the short-lived Roman-Turkish friendship was tension between
4571 2,4 | Law of the Visigoths” (Lex Romana Visithorum), intended for
4572 5,8 | Italian Empire” (Impero romano italiano). Gabotto’s characterization
4573 4,1 | Hidjaz and Yemen. From the Romano-Byzantine provinces of Palestine and
4574 5,6 | century and the western Romano-Germanic world of the same period
4575 8,2 | fidelis Imperator et moderator Romeorum et semper augustus, Comnenus
4576 9,2 | Philotheus, wrote; “Two Romes have fallen, and the third
4577 2,4 | building with large lecture rooms and auditoriums. The professors
4578 3,9 | and African animals, and, roost important of all, gave very
4579 2,2 | insanity of sacrifices be rooted out.”[65] But the pagan
4580 5,8 | the first attack of the “Ros,” or the Russians, upon
4581 8,13| mediation of the Russian prince Rostislav, Michael Asen’s father-in-law,
4582 5,6 | had been arranged between Rotrud, Charles’ daughter, whom
4583 9,8 | who had just been burnt at Rouen, “the whole truth” about
4584 9,19| absorbed in his thoughts, rough and unfriendly, but the
4585 9,7 | Constantinople, whence, by a roundabout way through the Archipelago
4586 9,7 | Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and with the ideas of Saint-Simon.[
4587 4,1 | 627 Heraclius completely routed the Persians in a battle
4588 7,1 | he succeeded in rapidly routing them. Then supported by
4589 5,8 | Emperor had to walk along the rows of maidens with a golden
4590 4,1 | of entertainment for the royalty.”[52] Toward the end of
4591 7,1 | families, a family named Rupen (Ruben) began to play an important
4592 9,4 | problem in Middle Greece, A. Rubió y Lluch, declared, “The
4593 2,1 | from the enemy (at Saxa Rubra near the Milvian bridge
4594 6,7 | the Basilics, giving the rubrics and most important chapters
4595 9,18| and were seeking, though rudely and awkwardly, to express
4596 7,1 | despotism and swept away by rudimentary religious feeling, saw in
4597 3,12| succeeding in mastering even the rudiments of the Greek language.[124]
4598 9,4 | Catalans pillagers and insolent ruffians, and one of them exclaimed: “
4599 2,2 | co-ruler (364-78). Valentinian ruied the western part of the
4600 7,1 | continuously exposed to the ruinous incursions of the Muslims
4601 9,9 | which are still to be seen (Rumeli-Hisar); the guns placed there
4602 6,7 | over the church, and, as Runciman said, “Caesaropapism once
4603 3,16| of thirty chapters, or “rungs,” in which he described
4604 7,1 | families, a family named Rupen (Ruben) began to play an
4605 7,1 | peninsula against the Moors, Rus [Russia] was holding the
4606 9,9 | has strewn around it a few rustic ornaments. Candles were
4607 5,5 | after the council, became ruthlessly severe. Images were broken,
4608 9,17| century a Spanish traveler, Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo, wrote: “
4609 6,8 | of the G. de Jerphanion, S.I., who devoted most of his
4610 4,1 | B.C. the kingdom of the Sabaeans-Himyarites (Homerites). But in about
4611 9,6 | in manibus prefati domini Sabaudie comitis), who was related
4612 2,2 | the election of a priest (sacerdos) for Africa, Until the end
4613 8,10| that is, Pope; in Latin sacerdotum princeps; in Greek αρχιερευς],
4614 9,18| of the Sacred Liturgy” (Sacrae liturgiae interpretatio).[
4615 9,9 | priest who held the holy sacrament saw the Muslims rush into
4616 7,1 | Europe … appears the self‑sacrificing champion of Christianity
4617 3,14| considered sacred and called Sacrum palatium, a name usually
4618 7,1 | an Anglo-Saxon pilgrim, Saewulf, his contemporary, told
4619 7,1 | of how, in order to be safer from the Greek ships, Bohemond
4620 3,9 | splendid, powerful, and sagacious people. So he ordered great
4621 6,2 | famous hero of Scandinavian sagas, Harald Haardraade, also
4622 7,4 | glory of that city of the sage.” Another writer said: “
4623 7,3 | coast fortress, Acre (Acra, Saint-Jean-d’Acre).~ The crusaders had
4624 9,7 | Rousseau, and with the ideas of Saint-Simon.[180]~ Thus, on the eve
4625 9,12| wearers of sackcloth” (σακκοφοροι),[255] who made their way
4626 9,18| fourteenth century, Coluccio Salutati, wrote Cydones a long and
4627 3,9 | and having received their salutations, requested them to be seated.
4628 5,6 | Emperor Michael I Rangabé saluted Charles at Aix-la-Chapelle (
4629 3,6 | their religious kinsmen, the Samaritans of Palestine, unable to
4630 8,17| western immunity with bayar samosud (right of jurisdiction among
4631 5,8 | Byzantine city of Amisus (Samsun) on the shore of the Black
4632 3,6 | churches” (caput omnium sanctarum ecclesiarum),[62] and in
4633 7,1 | ancient greatness of Byzantium sank into the grave forever.”
4634 9,3 | Caesar and Augustus.”[55] Sanudo, a western chronicler of
4635 8,17| from military service, it sapped the military power of the
4636 9,9 | when he wrote that all the saps made by the Turks under
4637 5,4 | refers to Emperor Leo as “the Saracen-minded” (σαρακηνοφρων),[76] although
4638 9,3 | Horde with its capital at Sarai, on the lower Volga. Realizing
4639 5,4 | as “the Saracen-minded” (σαρακηνοφρων),[76] although in reality
4640 2,3 | Nyssa, wrote, not without sarcasm, of the prevailing conditions
4641 9,13| East, by rationalistic and sarcastic attacks, which shook monastic
4642 9,7 | which the author describes sarcastically the customs and manners
4643 3,16| three naves. The ancient sarcophagi, decorated by sculptural
4644 2,2 | Nish) where he was born, Sardica (Sofia), and Thessalonica.
4645 5,2 | predecessors of Leo, and occupied Sardis and Pergamus, near the shores
4646 2,2 | later under the influence of Sassanid Persia, was almost completed
4647 7,4 | and stronghold, Attalia (Satalia), on the southern shore
4648 5,5 | relics. Time has preserved a satire of the iconoclastic period
4649 7,4 | philosophical works, of satires and humorous pieces. Many
4650 7,4 | including his prose essays, satiric dialogues, libels and epigrams
4651 2,4 | this decision fell short of satisfying the probing theological
4652 4,3 | prohibition of fasting on Saturdays, and the permission to priests
4653 9,17| In 1287, the monk Rabban Sauma, an envoy of the king of
4654 9,4 | region between the rivers Sava and Drava began to enter
4655 8,7 | darkest colors Theodore’s savagery and cruelty.[52] The fate
4656 7,1 | justly reckoned among the saviors of the Byzantine Empire.”~
4657 8,13| rather … became in fact the saviours of one of the greatest monuments
4658 2,1 | flee from the enemy (at Saxa Rubra near the Milvian bridge
4659 3,12| different tribes, among whom the Saxons were particularly numerous.
4660 7,1 | existed under Lothar of Saxony and John Comnenus and later
4661 7,1 | were called in the East scales (maritimas tres scalas),
4662 3,2 | she amused, charmed, and scandalized Constantinople.”[12] Procopius
4663 4,1 | and schism” (Seminator di scandalo e di scisma [Inferno, XXVIII,
4664 7,1 | supported by a body of Scandinavians who arrived with him from
4665 6,7 | explanations. In spite of the scantiness of sources on this point,
4666 7,1 | of the Greek Empire “the scapegoat charged with all the faults
4667 2,5 | in circulation had become scarce, was bad in quality, and
4668 4,2 | and the “vicious Typus [scelerosus Typus],” and declared all
4669 8,16| held in his hand a huge scepter and a gold arrow,”[182]
4670 6,4 | Jewish scholar in America, Schechter, edited and translated into
4671 9,7 | Nicopolis, the Bavarian soldier Schiltberger, who had been taken prisoner
4672 2,2 | of God those dissensions, schisms, tumults, and so to speak,
4673 9,9 | of the Byzantine capital, Schlumberger, “the indescribable joy
4674 7,3 | Phorcias, and Helena, J. Schmitt thinks that Mistra, which
4675 2,1 | tolerance toward Christianity. Schoenebeck, the German historian, questioned
4676 8,16| exceptions, in the artificial school-Greek tongue. This had broken
4677 5,6 | The German historian P. Schramm, who called Charles’ coronation “
4678 5,8 | orators, historians, natural scientists, doctors, councils, and
4679 4,1 | Seminator di scandalo e di scisma [Inferno, XXVIII, 31-36]).~ ~
4680 3,4 | time under their own name, “Sclavenes,” in Procopius. Large hordes
4681 4,1 | undertake a campaign “against Sclavinia.”[68] From this time dates
4682 7,1 | Serbia with the capital at Scodra (Skadar, Scutari). The Serbs
4683 9,5 | the history of Serbia. At Scopia (Skoplje, Uskub, in northern
4684 5,3 | reasoning; they must not scorn the. needy, or leave unpunished
4685 4,4 | ninth century, John the Scot Eriugena (Johannes Scotus
4686 9,9 | their expulsion from France. Scotch, Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians,
4687 9,4 | related to Hellenism than the Scottish Highlands are to the Afghan
4688 4,4 | Scot Eriugena (Johannes Scotus Eriugena), who was also
4689 5,8 | said, like Xerxes, to have scourged the water. But in the same
4690 5,8 | was subjected to a cruel scourging and was imprisoned in a
4691 9,7 | land without fearing to scratch their feet.”[146] The representatives
4692 3 | taken down in shorthand by scribes, it is preserved in its
4693 2,5 | known under the title of Scriptores Historiae Augustae. The
4694 6,2 | with ornamentation and sculptures; inside the church was adorned
4695 6,4 | Strait to Chrysopolis (now Scurari, facing Constantinople),
4696 5,8 | horrible impiety and abominable scurrility have been many times described.
4697 7,3 | archlets, balconies, galleries, scutcheons, and so forth, like a typical
4698 7,1 | modest dress, holding a scythe.~ Andronicus set strenuously
4699 3,16| one must place Cyril of Scythopolis, a Palestinian, who spent
4700 4,1 | the Mardaites are found as seafarers in Pamphylia (Southern Asia
4701 4,1 | population accustomed to seafaring. Recent studies of papyri
4702 8,13| receiving the important seaport Dyrrachium (Durazzo), on
4703 9,3 | Lyons, Charles succeeded in seating upon the papal throne one
4704 7,1 | the besieged city on the seaward side, the land army under
4705 6,7 | instance, those of Seleucia, Sebastea in Asia Minor, and a few
4706 4,1 | Palestine, and Egypt ready to secede from the Byzantine Empire
4707 2,5 | convinced of the desirability of seceding from the Byzantine Empire.
4708 3,9 | which was guarded in deep secrecy by China. In view of the
4709 6,7 | of employees known as the secretum of the eparch. Besides these
4710 5,5 | monasteries abolished and secularized by the iconoclasts. The
4711 9,12| stormily, and sometimes even seditiously.”[253] The majority of the
4712 7,1 | struggle with Frederick and seduced the pope by hints of a possible
4713 6,8 | are “many ingenious and seductive things,” they cannot be
4714 2,1 | 1891 the German scholar O. Seeck advanced the theory that
4715 9,18| person of an Indian princess, seeks for her love, and finally,
4716 8,16| guard discovers the couple, seizes Belthandros, and throws
4717 2,2 | became the Augustus and selected a new Caesar. This created
4718 8,2 | It is called Silentium (Σελεντιον, σιλεντιον), the name given
4719 2,2 | the Attalids, Syria of the Seleucids, and Egypt of the Ptolemies,
4720 7,1 | when Europe … appears the self‑sacrificing champion of
4721 2,5 | capital had attained a full self-consciousness and had assumed to itself
4722 4,1 | people peace, love, and self-control. He was responsible for
4723 5,2 | with Leo III, as well as in self-defense, the Bulgarians also were
4724 5,6 | the Atlantic.”[113] It is self-evident that this unity of the Empire
4725 7,4 | quotations, are full of self-praise, difficult and rather uninteresting
4726 2,2 | arose and flourished. At the selfsame period, by the express appointment
4727 8,17| a pronoia could neither sell, bequeath, nor give away
4728 7,1 | the right of buying and selling all over the Empire and
4729 6,8 | journey from Constantinople to Selybria, through districts which
4730 2,5 | Simeon Stylites (Kalat Seman), located between Antioch
4731 2,3 | heresy of Macedonius, a semi-Arian who attempted to prove that
4732 8,17| are transplanted into a semi-virgin field and are retained into
4733 5,2 | thousand dinars (denarii) in semiannual instalments. It is very
4734 8,9 | Klokotinitza (Clocotimtza), now Semidje, between Hadrianople and
4735 4,1 | of scandal and schism” (Seminator di scandalo e di scisma [
4736 5,8 | occupied by two Arabs or Semites; by one Greek, Michael I,
4737 8,2 | et moderator Romeorum et semper augustus, Comnenus Lascarus.”[
4738 8,13| commentator of Homer, and jurist, Senakherim, who after the taking of
4739 7,4 | England after the battle of Senlac, a few miles north of Hastings,
4740 9,9 | of Antichrist and second Sennacherib.”[234] In many letters the
4741 3,15| neither did he create a sensation by an unscholarly paradox.[
4742 8,17| feudalism is used in two senses, one generic, the other
4743 5,8 | woman, who combined a fine sensitiveness and a deep religiousness
4744 4,1 | explained by no personal sensitivity of the Emperor, but by political
4745 9,12| who chose as their motto a sentence of the Apostle Paul: “Touch
4746 9,6 | and Genoese until the Pope sentenced it to be destroyed, that
4747 3,8 | all bribes, to be just in sentences and administrative decisions,
4748 2,2 | East, where the prevailing sentiment was in favor of Arianism;
4749 9,12| reached such a point that it separates the dwellers of one house:
4750 6 | Basil II, In his time the separatist movements in Asia Minor
4751 7,4 | the land of Lombardy and Sepharad (Spain). It is a busy city,
4752 3,6 | translators (the so-called “Septuagint”). The civil rights of the
4753 3,4 | the powerful fortress of Septum, near the Pillars of Hercules (
4754 7,1 | more important, the Holy Sepulcre be not lost to you and that
4755 8,17| Holy Sepulchre (Lettres du Sépulcre) which, according to later
4756 9,2 | from him the repeal of the sequestration of Venetian vessels.”[17]
4757 7,4 | Octateuch in the Library of Seraglio. Some investigations suppose
4758 2,4 | palace known as the Tekfour Serai. After a violent earthquake
4759 2,3 | of the god Serapis, the Serapeum, which still remained the
4760 2,3 | famous temple of the god Serapis, the Serapeum, which still
4761 9,5 | Byzantium, not Serbian, but Serbian-Greek, and that “the Serbian people,
4762 8,2 | must look up to him as a serf looks up to his master;
4763 6,7 | controlled a vast number of serfs and immense landed estates,
4764 3,16| bearing on the introduction of sericulture in the Byzantine Empire
4765 3,9 | some silkworm eggs from Serinda, which formed the basis
4766 3,6 | foremost and religion only a servant of the state,[58] others
4767 8,13| and the fortress Serbia (Servia), near the confines of Epirus
4768 9,3 | imperatons Vulgarorum et regts Servie” appeared at his court.[
4769 6,6 | freed Rome of that shameful servitude.”[74] When Liudprand became
4770 6,7 | in the West. At the last session of the council the legates
4771 2,2 | experienced a number of setbacks during his reign, while
4772 9,17| Porphyrius (Uspensky), P. Sevastyanov, T. Florinsky, and V. Regel,
4773 7,4 | was published. It contains seventy-nine verses, covering briefly
4774 6,7 | with Rome which had been severed because of the pope’s approval
4775 4,1 | contemporary, Isidore, bishop of Seville, who remarked in his chronicle
4776 7,4 | Prophet, lay quietly in the shade of his trees and having
4777 3,16| marble of various colors and shades were also transported to
4778 6,2 | ruler to assume the title of Shahin-shah, meaning “King of Kings,”
4779 9,3 | Muslim, while Hulagu was a Shamanist, i.e., a pagan,[67] and
4780 2,2 | confess that they are most shamefully greedy of gain, and that,
4781 3,1 | Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; and indeed at the present
4782 7,4 | lost drachma, wandering sheep, and the dead Lazarus.~
4783 3,8 | purple is a fair winding sheet.”[82] The Emperor rallied
4784 7,1 | crusaders at Dorylaeum (Eski‑Shehr), forced the Turks to evacuate
4785 3,8 | was proclaimed emperor. Sheltered in the palace, Justinian
4786 9,18| Nicaean emperors succeeded in sheltering and developing the best
4787 4,1 | and his successor, Kawad Sheroe, opened peace negotiations
4788 5,7 | Byzantine History, by S. P. Shestakov, which covers this period,
4789 4,1 | western Europe, which was thus shielded from the serious Muslim
4790 3,5 | codes.”[55]~ An interesting shift of viewpoint in the study
4791 2,4 | walls were built in two shifts. In 413, during the early
4792 7,4 | Babylon, from the land of Shinar (Mesopotamia), from Persia,
4793 8,16| a model of all good, and shines brighter than the celebrated
4794 5,3 | liability on the part of the shipowner, the lessee merchant, and
4795 5,3 | habitual phenomenon that the shipowners and merchants could continue
4796 6,7 | He had even worn the hair shirt, and he kept up intimate
4797 7,2 | city of Constantinople is shivering with fright thinking that
4798 9,4 | name for the Albanians, Shkipetars, the etymological origin
4799 3,15| boldly this new theory, which shocked to the utmost the beliefs
4800 6,7 | trifling amounts of bread. This shocking open practice of the powerful
4801 8,16| weaving, Philadelphia for shoe-making, and Nicaea for philosophy.[
4802 7,4 | regret that he was not a shoemaker or tailor, a dyer or baker,
4803 9,13| of the light which had shone on Christ and which His
4804 7,1 | officers, and amidst them thou shonest as a brightest star!”~ The
4805 3 | speech was taken down in shorthand by scribes, it is preserved
4806 7,1 | cross worn on the right shoulder was adopted as the emblem
4807 9,7 | would ever believe that thou shouldst sink to such depth of misery,
4808 7,1 | accorded a great triumph … Shout was mixed and many‑tongued,
4809 3,2 | Theodora in the street would shrink from getting close to her,
4810 7,3 | even stay in them without shuddering. The sword [of the infidel]
4811 4,1 | northeast of the city of Shumla (Shumen), the excavators discovered
4812 8,2 | rulers; the city of Nicaea shut its gates to Theodore.~
4813 9,6 | of the Black Sea and of shutting off access to Tana. The
4814 8,13| having the heart of a shy deer,”[102] took refuge
4815 9,3 | Albania” (Dei gratia rex Sicilie et Albanie).[43] In a letter
4816 6,2 | Christian cut down like a sickle.”[29] However this last
4817 4,1 | He was of a sensitive, sickly disposition from early childhood,
4818 7,4 | complaints of poverty and sickness, or old age, and in supplications
4819 3,1 | eagerly endeavors to cure old sicknesses in such a way that new wounds
4820 8,17| custom to ancient statutes (sicut antiquitus statutum est).[
4821 3,1 | his two predecessors by siding definitely with the followers
4822 4,1 | Constantinople. They made their sieges annually, usually during
4823 9,18| superficially enhanced by a Sienese attractiveness. This being
4824 7,2 | The pope also breathed a sigh of relief.~ Henry’s activity,
4825 4,1 | Jerusalem: sounds of weeping and sighs, abundant tears, burning
4826 2,3 | Theophilus, one of the signers of the Nicene symbol. The
4827 6,2 | sending him a royal crown and signing with him a treaty of friendship
4828 2,1 | sign of Christ (coeleste signum Dei).[22] Lactantius said
4829 5,4 | Leo’s reign, sources are silent with regard to the persecution
4830 2,5 | position of silentiary (silentiarius).[142] Anastasius was crowned
4831 8,2 | called Silentium (Σελεντιον, σιλεντιον), the name given at the
4832 9,2 | seized me; but I sorrow silently, being still able to conceal
4833 7,1 | at Dristra (Durostolus, Silistria), on the lower Danube, and
4834 6,7 | the guilds of jewelers, silk-producers, silk-weavers, linen-makers,
4835 6,7 | jewelers, silk-producers, silk-weavers, linen-makers, makers of
4836 9,7 | moria (μωρια)[174] meaning silliness, folly. In contrast to Plethon,
4837 5,3 | be nonsense (literally “silly talk”), which contradicted
4838 3,16| continued by Theophylact Simocatta, an Egyptian, who lived
4839 7,1 | passing mention of the “simpler-minded” among the crusaders who
4840 2,1 | hidden reasons behind their simplest actions; we attribute to
4841 9,12| of sackcloth,” pilgrims simpletons, obscure wanderers, madmen,
4842 7,1 | the Greek ships, Bohemond simulated death, was put into a coffin,
4843 4,4 | contemporary of Maximus, Anastasius Sinaita (of Mount Sinai), developed
4844 8,15| per totum Imperium meum et sine aliqua inquisitione).[149]~
4845 8,16| to the interests of the sinful earth.”[161] Under the rhetorical
4846 3,15| the Long Wall and captured Singidunum [Belgrade], Anchialus, and
4847 5,6 | events of which, taking them singly, it may be said that if
4848 3,13| who covets in a name of singularity, who also puts himself above
4849 2,5 | epoch, did not reveal the sinister phenomena of his day, but
4850 9,7 | believe that thou shouldst sink to such depth of misery,
4851 2,3 | and full of mercy for the sinner.”[121]~ Arcadius died in
4852 4,1 | of God, the repentance of sinners, and the advocacy of good
4853 4,1 | was equipped with special “siphonophore” vessels which caused terrific
4854 4,1 | out by special tubes or siphons, which inflamed when it
4855 7,1 | The Emperor’s cousin Kyr (Sir) Andronicus took refuge
4856 8,1 | took the title of duke (sire), or, as he was called by
4857 2,2 | provinces, with a center at Sirmium on the River Save (near
4858 8,7 | the Latin newcomers were sitting illegally. The realization
4859 4,1 | world, he alluded to the six-year war in which Heraclius vanquished
4860 2,5 | the throne passed to his six-year-old grandson, Leo, who died
4861 2,4 | Theodosius is divided into sixteen books, which in turn are
4862 2,1 | accept this view. In 1013 the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the Edict
4863 2,5 | ascended the throne. Libanius’ sixty-five public addresses are of
4864 3,16| of the Empire, with its sixty-four provinces and 912 cities.
4865 9,18| essays and many orations, sixty-six of which were found in one
4866 8,12| Vatatzes died at the age of sixty-two, ending a reign of thirty-three
4867 7,1 | with the capital at Scodra (Skadar, Scutari). The Serbs had
4868 3,2 | must be viewed with some skepticism, for they all come from
4869 7,4 | later time.~ This brief sketch shows how powerfully the
4870 9,18| events previous to 1204 are sketched briefly, and the detailed
4871 9,19| in which he exalts to the skies hated Italy and vilifies
4872 6,2 | were forced to eat grass, skins of animals, ground bones
4873 9,5 | history of Serbia. At Scopia (Skoplje, Uskub, in northern Macedonia),
4874 6,8 | as the dated “Church of Skripu” (A.D. 874), in Boeotia;
4875 9,4 | near the modern village of Skripù). The Catalans won a decisive
4876 5,8 | Krum made a bowl out of the skull of the dead emperor and
4877 8,2 | him “Dog-John” (in Greek Skyloioannes);[15] in his letter a Latin
4878 2,2 | fire, handled the knife, slaughtered the birds, and knew all
4879 5,2 | was situated in Slavonic (Slavinian) land (in Slawinia terrae).[
4880 9,3 | threatened Byzantium from the Slavo-French allies. Moreover, Venice,
4881 5,8 | insurrection of Thomas the Slavonian. — In the ninth century
4882 5,2 | Slavonic (Slavinian) land (in Slawinia terrae).[17] There are references
4883 6,1 | him, he ordered his men to slay his benefactor, and then
4884 2,2 | ravaging the cities, and slaying the population. Julian handled
4885 9,4 | and the Emperor “seemed to sleep or be dead.”[77]~ ~The Spanish (
4886 9,2 | French scholar, Diehl, “a slender, dislocated, miserable body
4887 7,4 | earth ate them joyfully and slept comfortably, without fearing
4888 9,12| government used different slogans; but its opposition was
4889 7,3 | them was Mistra, on the slopes of Mount Taygetus, in ancient
4890 7,3 | many years, forlorn the sloping ridge~That northward to
4891 8,17| but little effect on the slower moving East. For there is
4892 6,3 | century did fortune begin to smile upon Basil. So cruel was
4893 9,2 | contemporary, “full of Italian smoke and fume”[5] from the carousals
4894 5,8 | gone out, but it is still smoking,” “like a crawling snake
4895 9,12| their theories into effect smoothly and with comparative peace;
4896 2,3 | ranked high in his army, smote the citizens of Thessalonica
4897 3,9 | the Chinese inspectors and smuggled into the Byzantine Empire
4898 7,1 | Saracens, always laying snares for the Christians, lie
4899 7,1 | imperial throne; and he snatched at the opportunity to appear
4900 3,9 | powerful?” The elderly Persian, snatching the word, answered: “Our
4901 5,5 | woman by the hand, amid the sneers and insults of the crowd
4902 7,1 | without tears or moan; but all sobbed and called their lost friends
4903 9,18| Ducas’ biographers said: “Sober, modest, well-educated,
4904 8,17| the German word Frohne (socage, compulsory service); since
4905 8,17| according to many historians and sociologists, all peoples pass in their
4906 2,2 | where he was born, Sardica (Sofia), and Thessalonica. His
4907 2,4 | five rhetors or sophists (sofistae) and ten grammarians were
4908 9,18| Concerning Prudence (Εις την σωφροσυνην).[417] A very interesting
4909 7,1 | such an anvil as not to be softened by the streams of Andronicus’
4910 7,1 | wipes off thy sweat and softly embraces thee. The whole
4911 3,9 | borders of China through Sogdiana (now Bokhara or Bukhara)
4912 9,7 | render military service; the soldiery should not be liable to
4913 6,8 | emperors, on various church solemnities, on the reception of foreign
4914 5,8 | 843 A.D. This day is still solemnized as the feast of orthodoxy
4915 8,13| set out for Europe, to solicit aid for his lost cause and
4916 7,1 | Jerusalem, who yielded to his solicitations. The infuriated Emperor
4917 7,1 | Byzantine Emperor humbly solicited the aid of the barbarians,
4918 4,1 | personal rivalries, the lack of solidarity and coordination toward
4919 4,4 | century speak clearly of the solidity of the foundations laid
4920 2,1 | the day of the sun” (dies solis); and the “invincible sun” (
4921 3,7 | and marvelous desert of solitaries.”[67] In 535 Severus, the
4922 7,1 | the Greek Kingdom” (ut non solum Romanum imperium nostro
4923 | somehow
4924 | sometime
4925 | somewhere
4926 8,13| phenomena of history. The sophistical maxim of the German philosopher
4927 9,18| such as Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
4928 3,15| ancient Hellenes with their Sophocleses and Platos.[131]~ ~It was
4929 5,8 | Middle Ages, of practicing sorcery and magic. The monks, many
4930 8,13| lost cause and to play the sorry part of an emperor in exile.”[
4931 7,4 | follower of the heresy of Soterichus Panteugenus and deprived
4932 8,13| Still a discordant note sounded in the words of a high official
4933 9,6 | and gallant youths “in the soundest of health, broke fast with
4934 9,4 | Dubrovnik),[104] and several south-French cities, like Marseilles.~
4935 3,16| legends found their way into south-Slavic and Russian as well as into
4936 8,11| group, marching in a more southerly direction, conquered all
4937 4,1 | Naples, Sicily, and the southernmost part of Italy, where the
4938 7,2 | and concerns forbade the sovereign-crusader to regard his Muslim ally
4939 4,3 | significance, it still continued to sow discord among the people
4940 9,12| way into many families and sowed there the seeds of schism.
4941 4,1 | heretic and calls him a “sower of scandal and schism” (
4942 2,5 | Diocletian’s palace at Spalato, in Dalmatia (early fourth
4943 2,3 | horrible massacres did not even spare the Gothic women and children,
4944 9,17| still endure … The city is sparsely populated … The inhabitants
4945 9,4 | Venetian dialect, so that some specialists call the Albanian tongue “
4946 3,8 | considered in future more highly specialized works.[80]~ The causes of
4947 8,17| Middle Ages is only one species of feudalism and is a concept
4948 3,8 | official, the Augustalis (vir spectabilis Augustalis), with military
4949 4,4 | mystics. “By combining the dry speculative mysticism of Dionysius the
4950 9,13| are “the four deeds of the speechless:” the beginners, progressives,
4951 9,13| ησυχια) which meant “silence, speechlessness.”~ The quarrel of the Hesychasts,
4952 2,5 | generations fell under the spell of his genius and high moral
4953 9,17| pilgrims, were amazed and spellbound by the decorations and relics
4954 6,8 | newly born against evil spells. In its contents the epic
4955 3,9 | exported to the West perfumes, spices, cotton, precious stones,
4956 3,2 | devoting much of her time to spinning wool and developing a great
4957 5,8 | other, and thus occurred the split in the church. With the
4958 9,6 | vineyards, but they are all spoilt. The harbor of Tenedos looks
4959 6,4 | agreements (τας ενορκους σπονδας), came by sea to the imperial
4960 7,1 | unfortunate incidents were only sporadic. In the conquered regions
4961 9,18| Kondakov called “archaeological sport,”[427] has found a few adherents.[
4962 7,1 | informed on Manuel’s favorite sports of which hunting was not
4963 5,6 | through his own citizens,[103] spreads everywhere, The third is (
4964 6,5 | in number the bees of the springtime, and no one knows yet how
4965 5,7 | a new principle of life sprung forth, which was to enrich
4966 7,4 | appeals to the monks not to squander the treasures of the libraries
4967 7,4 | military enterprises, Manuel squandered enormous amounts of money
4968 3,8 | the famous cathedral of Sr. Sophia. The rallying cry
4969 9,17| and private charters, is srill preserved unpublished among
4970 9,6 | s tent killed him with a stab from a poisoned dagger.
4971 8,9 | his subjects and did not stain himself with the murders
4972 8,15| fruits; roads, streets, all stalls, and enclosures have been
4973 7,3 | mountain-vale, behind, a stalwart race~Themselves establish’
4974 7,1 | wasteful prodigality, John stamped his mark upon the court,
4975 3,5 | legislation did not come to a standstill. Many new decrees were issued
4976 9,9 | a poem in verse, in four stanzas, “Constantinopolis,” was
4977 3,16| above him, on the blue starred sky of the large medallion,
4978 9,12| this “second paradise or starry heaven or refuge of all
4979 4,4 | been the desire of all true statesmen.”[93]~ In the Balkan peninsula
4980 9,4 | According to the approximate statistics made by scholars, the Albanians
4981 8,17| emperors (debemus in suo statu tenere, nihil ab aliquo
4982 8,17| statutes (sicut antiquitus statutum est).[209]~ Beginning with
4983 7,1 | children of the men then staying in Nicaea, and bade them
4984 9,17| payment of tribute, forced stays at the Turkish court, and
4985 2,3 | defended with conviction and steadiness the ideals of the apostolic
4986 8,17| and how shamelessly they steal everything.” Then after
4987 9,6 | Byzantium had again to steer a way between the two republics,
4988 8,14| its mother as if from its step-mother.”[130] “Two states,” Luchaire
4989 2,2 | 375-92), the four-year-old stepbrother of Gratian. Following the
4990 2,1 | During his reign Christianity stepped for the first time on the
4991 9,2 | considered it only as the steppingstone to eventual conquest of
4992 6,8 | traced; the composition was stereotyped; the very colors were prescribed.[
4993 7,1 | crusades “sterile insanities” (sterili insanie).~ The First Crusade
4994 4,4 | completely. The main cause of the sterility of this period must be sought
4995 6,7 | the powerful class.~ The sternest foe of the powerful class
4996 9,7 | Latin conquerors), Slavs (Sthlavinians), Illyrians (i.e. Albanians),
4997 6,8 | liberated Byzantine art from stifling ecclesiastic and monastic
4998 3,16| only patronized but also stimulated literature, and often spent
4999 9,3 | editions of his book. A new stimulus to the study of this problem
5000 9,11| of the pope; to all these stipulations, in the name of Michael,
5001 6,8 | eleventh, century; St. Luke of Stiris in Phocis (the early eleventh
5002 9,17| and Vardariots, of Turkish stock.[308] Unable to pay its
5003 8,15| agriculture, vineyards, and stock-breeding. To quote a source, “in
5004 9,18| as the author of Εκθεσις στοιχειωδης ρησεων θεολογικων, or Expostio
5005 8,17| private ownership, for it was stolen and plundered, including
5006 3,8 | which took the place of a stomach feeding all parts of the
5007 9,18| sometimes, accordingly, he stooped to every kind of flattery
5008 4,1 | granary of Constantinople. Stoppage of the supply of Egyptian
5009 9,13| spiritual and corporeal life stops, his mind remains immovable,
5010 5,5 | transformed into a “fruit store and aviary.”[91] In this
5011 7,4 | and gold. Like unto these storehouses and this wealth, there is
5012 9,12| unscrupulousness, reminds us of the stormiest times of the heresy struggles
5013 9,12| always acted noisily, often stormily, and sometimes even seditiously.”[
5014 7,3 | of taking Constantinople, storming it by land and sea. For
5015 9,17| Genoese because the winter storms could not prevent them from