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The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 7
His broad shoulders, muscular arms, mighty chest, in fact his generally heroic appearance, evoked in the multitude the greatest admiration and pleasure. From his...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 6
He had already in former times been a frequent visitor to the mother of the Comneni and had predicted her son’s rise to the...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 5
By use of the above-mentioned arguments the Caesar soothed and appeased the Emperor’s mind, although many advised him to marry Eudocia. Of her it...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 4
And the Caesar, John Ducas, was anxious to get rid of Queen Maria, and – drive her out of the palace as quickly as...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 3
II And now, as I said above, many people were suspicious of the Queen’s staying in the palace, and began to whisper that the...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 2
He was fair-haired with a milk-white complexion, suffused in the right places with a delicate pink, like that of a rose just bursting its...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 1
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power StrugglesI directly the Comneni had taken possession of the palace they dispatched to the Emperor their niece’s...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 45
Bardas, although a prisoner in our hands, is not exposed, as Your captives are, to mutilation; his presence in the capital is the best...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 44
I said this: “Ibn al-Bakilani came to no agreement with you; it was Ibn Kunis who made this compact and took a copy of...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 43
From this nobility are descended those men whom you style ‘rulers of the world.’ But we Lombards, Saxons, Franks, Lotharingians, Bavarians, Swabians and Burgundians,...
