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 Struggles
I 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,...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 42
On this same day he ordered me to be his guest. But as he did not think me worthy to be placed above any...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 41
“It is past seven o’clock,” said Nicephorus “and there is a church procession which I must attend. Let us keep to the business before...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 40
“But,” said be, “there is one of Adalbert’s vassals here, and he does not acknowledge the truth of this.” “If he denies it,” I...
