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5516  9,19|           predominates over his age and urges it with ardor into the new
5517  3,5 |              was necessary to make up a usable practical manual for them.
5518  9,7 |                 fifteenth century, Adam Usk, wrote: “I thought within
5519  9,15|            Cathedral of the Assumption (Uspenski Cathedral), but he found
5520  6,8 |            Christian Greek. Digenes was usualiy applied to children born
5521  8,17|             Diehl wrote on this epoch: “Usurpations continued; the might of
5522  8,14|                Michael Palaeologus, who usurped the throne of Nicaea in
5523  7,1 |               also “the Greek Kingdom” (ut non solum Romanum imperium
5524  6,7 |               with them numerous church utensils, relics, and manuscripts.
5525  9,3 |                 he was persuaded of its utility for a future crusade. Moreover,
5526  6,8 |             Ducas, showed much skill in utilizing the existing conditions
5527  9,18|             piece of work was a kind of Utopia, “A Treatise on the Laws” (
5528  9,7 |               both writers, the learned utopian Plethon as well as the satirist
5529  6,8 |             with flowers even in simple utterances; and without any effort
5530  9,9 |               Byzantium, Lucas Notaras, uttered his famous words, “It is
5531  3,4 |                 successor, Solomon, was utterly defeated and slain. The
5532  8,6 |               decisively, but pursued a vacillating and weakening policy of
5533  3,16|                 Συνεκδημος; Synecdemus; Vademecum). The author does not center
5534  9,17|                  the church they called Valayerna [Blachernae] is today so
5535  7,3 |              rolls, and then, along our vale~Broad-flowing among reeds,
5536  9,2 |              done in ignorance.” In his valedictory address to Manuel, Murad
5537  8,10|             days in the Spanish city of Valencia, where, in the little church
5538  9,7 |             century A.D. by the Emperor Valerian when he fortified Greece
5539  9,9 |             that “a strong expedition” [valida expeditio] will be ready
5540  9,3 |                 1276, at Brindisi or at Valona. But at the very beginning
5541  9,9 |                 incited the people to a valorous defense, but he clearly
5542  4,1 |           Heraclius had recourse to the valuables of the churches in the capital
5543  6,8 |               in Armenia, north of Lake Van. Shortly before the combat
5544  5,8 |                is to be deplored; their vandalism impoverished not only the
5545  3,8 |             Nika, meaning “victory” or “vanquish,” has given this uprising
5546  2,4 |                and I will assist you in vanquishing the Persians,”[127] By heretics
5547  7,4 |               was the beginning of the “Varangian-English bodyguard” which, in the
5548  7,1 |           Balkan peninsula, east of the Vardar river, and later on entered
5549  9,17|                or Anglo-Varangians, and Vardariots, of Turkish stock.[308]
5550  6,7 |                  and at the same time a variation, of the late Roman system
5551  5,3 |              profusion of books and the variations and contradictions found
5552  8,12|                 the name of “John Ducas Vatadzt.”[92]~ The external activity
5553  9,17|                acts of the monastery of Vazelon, near Trebizond, recently
5554  9,11|           future patriarch John Beccus (Veccus), “a wise man, master of
5555  9,9 |                  in the quarter of Abou Vefa in Stamboul, may be seen
5556  7,4 |               more direct and faithful, vehicle for the transmission of
5557  6,8 |              protection by assuming the veil. When Romanus had been set
5558  5,4 |                pieces a church curtain (velum) with the image of Jesus
5559  9,9 |       Constantinople was “a real abode [velut domicilium proprium] of
5560  3,8 |         administration expressed in the venality, theft, and extortions which
5561  2,4 |          venerable laws of the Romans” (venerandae Romanorum leges), which
5562  5,4 |          ordered the destruction of the venerated statue of Christ situated
5563  9,19|                 aroused an enthusiastic veneration for ancient Hellas in Italy,
5564  9,6 |            Black Death of 1348, and the Venetian-Genoese War. — Toward the end of
5565  3,8 |                factions were the Blues (Venetoi), who stood for orthodoxy,
5566  7,1 |           German sovereigns, he did not venture to begin war with Byzantium
5567  5,5 |          proclaimed for any person who “ventures to represent the divine
5568  4,4 |                 superficially or copied verbatim. But although this work
5569  3,9 |          deprived of the opportunity to verify personally our words, I
5570  3,5 |               based on these materials. Verifying or reinterpreting the text
5571  5,3 |             place at an earlier period. Vernadsky and Ostrogorsky stated that
5572  6,2 |                to Muhammedanism or vice versa was also guaranteed.~ The
5573  6,8 |                 scholarly disputes, and verse-writing, and was not at all inclined
5574  7,1 |           nostro disponatur moderamine, verum etiam regnum grecie ad nutum
5575  2,2 |        Constantius did not disperse the vestals and priests in Rome, and
5576  3,5 |         instance, “who, standing in the vestibules of law, are longing to enter
5577  9,4 |                 to “the old Kral,” “rex veteranus.” T. Florinsky commented, “
5578  2,3 |             Theodosius laid an absolute veto upon all other tendencies
5579  7,1 |       enthusiasm, and at the meeting of Vezelay, in Burgundy, the French
5580  9,18|                its strength to show the viability of classical culture and
5581  4,4 |              was called the drungarius (vice-admiral), and the governor of Opsikion
5582  7,1 |               the eastern colony in the vicinity of that city, succeeded
5583  8,10|               years, which were full of vicissitudes and adventures. She ended
5584  9,3 |              quarter called Bulgarian” (vicus qui vocatur Bulgarus).[48]
5585  5,2 |                 Byzantine Empire, could vie with the emperors in his
5586  4,1 |                no sufficient ground for viewing this event, as does Professor
5587  9,19|               the skies hated Italy and vilifies and blames Greece and Byzantium,
5588  4,1 |               attention whatever (quasi vilissima contemnentes). Woe! The
5589  4,1 |                have seized therein 4000 villas with 4000 baths, 40,000
5590  3,4 |        eventually reached from Cape St. Vincent on the west to beyond Carthage
5591  2,5 |                 task to officials named vindices, who probably were appointed
5592  7,4 |           askance at the gleaner in his vineyard or being suspicious of the
5593  8,17|                by a Russian scholar, P. Vinogradov: “Feudalism is marked by
5594  9,2 |             Stephen V; his second wife, Violanta-Irene, a sister of the north-Italian
5595  8,7 |                 the honor, unwilling to violate the rights of the Greek
5596  3,7 |              this edict the Emperor was violating the conscience of members
5597  7,1 |               weak and the enemy of the violators, that you incline the balance
5598  7,3 |          objects of your adoration, and violently attacked the Holy Land.
5599  8,10|                 personal enemies, this “viper brood of the Hohenstaufens,”
5600  3,8 |               official, the Augustalis (vir spectabilis Augustalis),
5601  8,14|              Theodore Lascaris” (nobilt viro Theodora Lascari).[125]
5602  9,18|                of Boccaccio’s L’Amorosa Visione.[418] This example may illustrate
5603  3,8 |           Sicily. In Constantinople the visitation lasted four months. The
5604  2,4 |              the Visigoths” (Lex Romana Visithorum), intended for the Roman
5605  7,1 |                over Constantinople. The visits to the capital of foreign
5606  6,8 |               point of view of artistic vitality and originality. The subsequent
5607  9,3 |                presence of the pope, at Viterbo, a small Italian city north
5608  9,17|               Russian Byzantine review, Vizantiysky Vremennik, which have not
5609  9,3 |            called Bulgarian” (vicus qui vocatur Bulgarus).[48] The Serbian
5610  2,5 |               in 1860 and 1861 by M. de Vogue give some conception of
5611  9,3 |          capital at Sarai, on the lower Volga. Realizing the great importance
5612  7,1 |                  With cries of “Deus lo volt” (“God wills it” or “It
5613  4,4 |                a considerable number of volunteers for the colonization of
5614  7,1 |               Crusades and preparation (Vorbereitung) for the Frankish dominion
5615  3,7 |                 adding his voice to the votes of the four eastern patriarchs.
5616  9,9 |          Constantine’s characteristics, vouched for by many Greek sources
5617  7,3 |                 from the purity of your vow, when you marched not against
5618  9,17|               the sometimes humiliating voyages to western Europe of the
5619  9,17|           Byzantine review, Vizantiysky Vremennik, which have not yet been
5620  2,3 |              fourth century was Ulfila (Vulfila), supposed by some to be
5621  9,3 |               The envoys of “imperatons Vulgarorum et regts Servie” appeared
5622  3,16|             spoken Greek language, that vulgate Greek dialect, popular in
5623  7,4 |               singing seems “the cry of vultures or croak of crow.”~ In the
5624  9,15|                 create a great monument vying with the Colossus of Rhodes,
5625  7,1 |              the whole people living in wagons and unorganized; he coloured
5626  7,1 |              upon western Europe a real wail of despair, a real cry of
5627  2,2 |                temples outside the city wails still remained inviolable
5628  9,6 |               arm themselves and lie in wait and kill many Christians.[
5629  7,1 |             crusading idea. The Emperor waited with irritation and alarm
5630  7,3 |              The sword [of the infidel] waits for them without; within
5631  5,2 |               caliphate. Powerful Calif Walid I (705-15), a contemporary
5632  7,1 |               tumultuous, violent, and ‘walking in crooked ways,’ because
5633  2,2 |              shall keep on until he who walks ahead of me will stop.”[
5634  9,9 |              siege machinery, and other wall-battering devices.”[214] The contemporary
5635  6,5 |                 the territory of modern Wallachia, north of the Lower Danube,
5636  7,2 |            kingdom was ethnologtcally a Wallachian-Bulgarian-Cuman state, its dynasty, if the
5637  7,2 |              denied the strength of the Wallachian-Roumanian element in the insurrection
5638  7,1 |            Amiens and another preacher, Walter the Penniless, hardly realized
5639  2,5 |                in a mantle, she used to wander about the city and expound
5640  9,12|            pilgrims simpletons, obscure wanderers, madmen, and other disreputable
5641  2,3 |              Thus the Gothic menace was warded off through the efforts
5642  5,3 |         testaments, and intestacies, of wardship, enfranchisement of slaves,
5643  8,15|                in a short time, all the warehouses have been filled to overflowing
5644  4,1 |              him and his followers very warmly and later changed the name
5645  6,7 |             allelengyon, meaning mutual warrant (αλληλεγγυον). As far back
5646  7,4 |               light-bringer who appears washed not by the waves of ocean,
5647  2,5 |              addition of the words “who wast crucified for us,” (that
5648  7,1 |          Opposed to needless luxury and wasteful prodigality, John stamped
5649  9,6 |                internal strife that was wasting the country, started, as
5650  9,17|                 of Mount Athos were too watchful guards of their libraries,
5651  3,9 |                 successfully evaded the watchfulness of the Chinese inspectors
5652  7,1 |               East, if not planted, was watered.”[12] The all‑powerful ruler,
5653  9,2 |                strategic and commercial waterways, belonged to the restored
5654  3,5 |          earthquake followed by a tidal wave and fire. The school of
5655  3,4 |                himself was beginning to waver; in the end he overcame
5656  5,8 |               the time of the religious waverings of Boris, still there was
5657  5,8 |           iconoclastic ideas absolutely weakens; the movement was already
5658  7,4 |             Prodromus was judged by his weakest, though unfortunately best
5659  8,16|                 for war, because strong weapons are the best protection;
5660  9,15|         recognize these dogmas, and the weary Emperor was on the point
5661  7,3 |                 was driven by stress of weather upon the southern shores
5662  5,8 |                  more theological, more wedded to tradition, if from the
5663  6,7 |                 church (such as simony, wedlock of the clergy, secular investiture,
5664  7,1 |             Latin tyranny which, like a weed, had grafted itself on the
5665  4,1 |              month, called Ramadan. The weekly holiday was set on Friday.
5666  2,5 |          support of the army. This also weighed heavily on the poorer classes,
5667  9,6 |              monasteries “in air,” “the weirdly fantastic Metéora, which
5668  8,16|                of seeing his son again, welcomes them with great joy. The
5669  7,3 |              conception of the crusade; welcoming the restored Byzantine Emperor
5670  9,9 |                the Ottoman menace could weld disunited western Europe
5671  7,1 |                 and intrigues, the Duke Welf, an old enemy of the Hohenstaufens,
5672  9,2 |          Venetian Senate, as usual very well-informed of the situation in Constantinople
5673  3,6 |             power, he assumed that in a well-ordered state everything is subject
5674  3,9 |                number of fortresses and well-protected border lines. In a few years
5675  3,16|                has given a complete and well-rounded picture of the reign. Educated
5676  9,3 |              hands of another. He was a well-trained, energetic, at times severe,
5677  8,2 |                streets, full of people, well-walled, proud of what it encloses,
5678  7,1 |            Byzantine envoys appeared at Westminster, and an Englishman, Geoffrey
5679  2,3 |               as we purify a measure of wheat by separating the chaff
5680  9,9 |                 the vessels were put on wheels and dragged over the platform
5681      | whereby
5682  2,1 |                 contrary to good order. Wherefore, in accordance with this
5683      | wherein
5684  6,6 |                 the glories of the past whereon rested the idea of the Medieval
5685  2,1 |               from the leading classes, whilst: a large number may represent
5686  5,4 |               from personal or dynastic whims, but on the basis of mature
5687  3,3 |            undoubtedly God on earth and whoso raises a hand against him
5688  5,6 |             Rome; but the report of how wickedly the ruler of that empire
5689  6,1 |          authority in the hands of Zoë, widowed for the second time, and
5690  8,10|                Theodore I Lascaris. The widower-Emperor, said a source, “being unable
5691  7,4 |                 clement to the poor and widows.” In all probability, Prodromus
5692  6,1 |                 ability to break in the wildest horses. Stories of young
5693  9,17|                  313]~ On the power and wilfulness of the large landowners (
5694  7,1 |                nor to be charmed by the wiliness of his words which he poured
5695  3,7 |           troubled by the fact that the willingness to sign this imperial edict
5696  6,2 |                 and condition whom thou wilt find seated in the mosque
5697  8,10|            cypress-tree, the ivy gently windeth;~The Empress is the cypress-tree,
5698  3,8 |               that the purple is a fair winding sheet.”[82] The Emperor
5699  3,16|            earth’s surface. Forty large windows at the base of the dome
5700  3,10|                 death,” said Bury, “the winds were loosed from prison;
5701  3,16|              dome, the large figures of winged angels.~ The most difficult
5702  4,4 |                 views, and they must be winnowed from his numerous writings.
5703  9,18|           single combat over his rival, wins her as his wife. Thanks
5704  2,2 |                 later works he recalled wintering in his “beloved Lutetia.”[
5705  7,1 |            violent epidemics and severe winters. These hard conditions of
5706  7,1 |                 the sword of Elijah; it wipes off thy sweat and softly
5707  6,2 |              attempted another alliance wirh the Armenian King Ashot
5708  7,1 |             Fiscardo (Guiscardo, Portus Wiscardi, in the Middle Ages, from
5709  3,14|                exarchs were chosen very wisely by Maurice and demonstrated
5710  8,16|            listen to better advice from wiser men which he will collect
5711  5,3 |             title, “The chapters of the wisest Tsar Leo and Constantine,
5712  2,2 |                 moment the council met, withered by the universal reprobation
5713  5,8 |               of this line were able to withstand the aggressive operations
5714  3,12|               its own fate, Rome, which withstood more than one Lombard siege,
5715  7,1 |                  Handsome, elegant, and witty, an athlete and a warrior,
5716  6,8 |                 of the Turks there. The woeful condition of the Empire
5717  9,15|                his flock but a ravening wolf, and he was placed under
5718  7,3 |                 trembled; and it was no wonder, for never was so great
5719  3,2 |                 of her time to spinning wool and developing a great interest
5720  2,2 |              his timely transfer of the world-capital to Constantinople he saved
5721  2,3 |               wrote: “If even in such a world-city as Antioch the common man
5722  2,1 |            diabolical perspicacity of a world-master, realized the importance
5723  6,6 |              and referred to the future world-monarchy as Orbis romanus. This young
5724  5,5 |                Patriarch Germanus, the “worshiper of wood,” and Mansur, i.e.,
5725  2,3 |                each man “the freedom of worshiping whatever his conscience
5726  5,4 |               that which is revered and worshipped” (ne quod colitur et adoratur
5727  9,9 |             time crowded with Christian worshippers. It requires no great effort
5728  7,1 |                on by the real desire of worshipping at our Lord’s Sepulchre,
5729  7,1 |              yet been solved. But it is worth pointing out that the epoch
5730  8,16|             custom of the choice of the worthiest bride for the basileus.
5731  8,13|              Latins belongs to the most worthless phenomena of history. The
5732  2,2 |                 his own blood [from his wound] into the air and exclaimed, ‘
5733  3,1 |       sicknesses in such a way that new wounds may not originate from them.”[
5734  2,1 |               of the cross was a golden wreath surrounding the monogram
5735  8,17|                which often successfully wrested from the Empire important
5736  5,8 |                been killed and is still wriggling,” “the winter is over, but
5737  6,8 |                the power of the capital wss not felt. They lent a dignity
5738  9,18|           century, Nicephorus Kallistus Xanthopulos compiled his Ecclesiastical
5739  9,15|             nineteenth century Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical concerning
5740  9,7 |            Manuel’s activity, Berger de Xivrey, wrote: “This feeling will
5741  2,2 |                of Ammianus Marcellinus (xxv, 3, 15-20). While anticipating
5742  4,1 |          scandalo e di scisma [Inferno, XXVIII, 31-36]).~ ~Causes of the
5743  9,4 |                 Middle Greece, A. Rubió y Lluch, declared, “The discovery
5744  6,3 |                  came from his imperial yacht and Simeon from the land.
5745  8,17|                 problem of exkuseia, P. Yakovenko, disagreed with this opinion;
5746  6,2 |                 the thirteenth century, Yaqut, narrates an interesting
5747  4,1 |                 the battle on the River Yarmuk led to the Arabian conquest
5748  5,4 |                 that the Arabian caliph Yazid II issued a decree in his
5749  4,1 |                 literature the westward yearning of Constans II, somewhat
5750  9,3 |               of Central Asia on a real Yellow Crusade (Croisade Jaune)
5751  3,8 |        difficulty: we have ample funds; yonder is the sea, and there are
5752  7,3 |              than that which in days of yore descended upon the five
5753  2,2 |            Trier, Treves) and Eburacum (York). All four rulers were considered
5754      | yourself
5755      | yourselves
5756  9,3 |                Genoese of the family of Zaccana, for example, who obtained
5757  4,1 |                 Patriarch of Jerusalem, Zacharias.[9]~ This devastating Persian
5758  7,3 |             reconquer the city of Zara (Zadr), situated on the Dalmatian
5759  7,1 |               repopulated. The governor Zain‑ed‑Din, who was a good‑natured
5760  8,17|          western patronage with Russian zakladnichestvo and western immunity with
5761  5,8 |              and burned the fortress of Zapetra and invaded some other places.
5762  5,8 |           pupils that the Caliph Mamun, zealously interested in promoting
5763  9,12|        Byzantine sources the “zealots” (ζηλωται), the other the “politicians” (
5764  4,1 |                Hellenistically educated Zenobia, as the Roman and Greek
5765  9,13|               Mountain proved to be the Zion of the true faith. In the
5766  7,4 |                yet been published. John Zonaras wrote in the twelfth century
5767  2,1 |            extent by the example of the Zoroastrian state church in Persia.[
5768  4,1 |                 to some extent Parsism (Zoroastrianism), the religion of the Persian
5769  5,8 |              the French orientalist, H. Zotenberg, advanced some proofs that
5770  7,1 |               sent to the Croatian King Zvonimir to urge him to take part
5771  9,4 |               at the head of which were župans. A tendency towards unification
5772  9,4 |                independent districts or župy, at the head of which were