History of the Byzantine Empire, Volumen1Blackwood, 1853 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
administration Amorium Armenian Asia Minor attack Bagdat Bardas Basil Basil II bishops BOOK Bulgarian Byzan Byzantine army Byzantine empire Byzantine government Byzantine troops caliph capital Cedrenus Cherson Christian church civilisation clergy command compelled conduct conquest Constantine Constantine IX Constantine Porphyrogenitus Constantinople council court death defeated Eastern Empire ecclesiastical edit emperor empress enemy eunuchs favour fleet frontier gold governor Greece Greek historians Iconoclasts Ignatius image-worship imperial inhabitants invaded Irene John Leo Diaconus Leo's Maniakes Michael Michael III military Mohammedans monastery monks nations Nicephorus Nicephorus II Niketas officers orthodox palace papal Patriarch Patzinaks Paulicians Phokas Photius plunder political Pope population Porphyr Porphyrogenitus possession prince prisoners provinces rank ravages rebellion reign rendered Roman Romanus III Rome Russians Saracens Sclavonian sent Sicily Skleros slaves society sovereign stantinople Symeon Mag theme Theodora Theophanes Theophilus Thessalonica Thrace throne tion Varangian victory wealth Zimiskes Zonaras
Pasajes populares
Página 532 - But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house : they shall eat of his meat.
Página 242 - Iconoclast sovereigns lived at the end of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth century: the Patriarch Nicephorus and the monk Theophanes.
Página 472 - CHESNEY— THE EXPEDITION FOR THE SURVEY OF THE RIVERS EUPHRATES and TIGRIS, carried on by order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.
Página 10 - From these considerations I should have abandoned without regret the Greek slaves and their servile historians, had I not reflected that the fate of the Byzantine monarchy is passively connected with the most splendid and important revolutions which have changed the state of the world.
Página 142 - He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; He seeketh unto him a cunning workman To prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Página 10 - The contest concerning image-worship, from the prevalence of ecclesiastical ideas, became the expression of this struggle. Its object was as much to consolidate the supremacy of the imperial authority, as to purify the practice of the church. The emperors wished to constitute themselves the fountains of ecclesiastical as completely as of civil legislation.
Página 12 - I. (Coranenus) in 1057, to the conquest of the Byzantine empire by the Crusaders, in 1204. This is the true period of the decline and fall of the Eastern Empire. It commenced by a rebellion of the great nobles of Asia, who effected an internal revolution in the Byzantine empire by wrenching the administration out of the hands of well-trained officials, and destroying the responsibility created by systematic procedure.
Página 106 - This circumstance had brought about regular exchanges of prisoners as early as the reign of Constantine V., AD 769 -. In the year 797, a new clause was inserted in a treaty for the exchange of prisoners, binding the contracting parties to release all supernumerary captives, on the payment of a fixed sum for each individual 3.
Página 112 - ... (Finlay, ii. p. 97). Nicephorus "eagerly pursued the centralizing policy of his iconoclast predecessors, and strove to render the civil power supreme over the clergy and the Church. He forbade the Patriarch to hold any communications with the Pope, whom he considered as the Patriarch of Charlemagne ; and this prudent measure has caused much of the virulence with which his memory has been attacked by ecclesiastical and orthodox historians.
Página 48 - Constantinople2, he does not appear to have adopted any measures for declaring Rome independent. That he contemplated the possibility of events taking a turn that might ultimately lead him to throw off his allegiance to the Emperor Leo, is nevertheless evident, from one of his letters to that emperor, in which he boasts very significantly that the eyes of the West were fixed on his humility, and that if Leo attempted to injure the Pope, he would find the West ready to defend him, and even to attack...