Europe, 476-918Rivington, Percival & Company, 1895 - 532 էջ |
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... ravages by which he had reduced Thrace and Moesia to a condition even more miserable than that in which they had been left by the hordes of Attila.1 Having failed , like all his forerunners , to take Constantinople , and having ...
... ravages by which he had reduced Thrace and Moesia to a condition even more miserable than that in which they had been left by the hordes of Attila.1 Having failed , like all his forerunners , to take Constantinople , and having ...
Էջ 34
... ravages during the first eighty years of the century , there was never again any danger that the barbarians would get hold of the machinery of government , and subvert the Empire from within . In the of cr ac St re he ildizi erosi Or T ...
... ravages during the first eighty years of the century , there was never again any danger that the barbarians would get hold of the machinery of government , and subvert the Empire from within . In the of cr ac St re he ildizi erosi Or T ...
Էջ 35
... ravages far and wide in the Balkan peninsula , they never seriously attempted to molest the great central place of arms on which the East - Roman power based itself . The Western Empire had no such stronghold - capital , arsenal , har ...
... ravages far and wide in the Balkan peninsula , they never seriously attempted to molest the great central place of arms on which the East - Roman power based itself . The Western Empire had no such stronghold - capital , arsenal , har ...
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... ravage the Thracian plains ; but meanwhile he sent an embassy to Zeno , offering to submit if he were given the title of magister militum , which he had held under Basiliscus , and taken with all his army into the imperial pay . Zeno ...
... ravage the Thracian plains ; but meanwhile he sent an embassy to Zeno , offering to submit if he were given the title of magister militum , which he had held under Basiliscus , and taken with all his army into the imperial pay . Zeno ...
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... ravage Macedonia up to the very gates of Thessalonica . Zeno sent his troops into winter - quarters , as the season ... ravages of the Huns of Attila and the Ostrogoths of the previous generation . The generals of Zeno met with little ...
... ravage Macedonia up to the very gates of Thessalonica . Zeno sent his troops into winter - quarters , as the season ... ravages of the Huns of Attila and the Ostrogoths of the previous generation . The generals of Zeno met with little ...
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Էջ 206 - Have I not destroyed the Greeks ? You say that you trust in your God. Why has he not delivered out of my hand Caesarea, Jerusalem, and Alexandria?
Էջ 6 - Brittany, ..oo a!?oa rough confederacy of Celtic states. The Seine valley and the middle Loire formed a Romano-Gallic kingdom under Syagrius, the last governor who had acknowledged the supremacy of the empire beyond the Alps. The Cantabrians and Basques in their hills above the Bay of Biscay had preserved their independence against the Visigoths, just as their ancestors, five centuries before, had held out against the Roman conquerors of Spain. Lastly, there was still a fragment of territory on the...
Էջ 60 - God of his queen, and he cried, " Jesus Christ, whom Clotilda declares to be the Son of the living God, if Thou wilt grant me victory over these enemies, I will believe in Thee and be baptized in Thy name.
Էջ 339 - Theodoric himself, are but shadowy figures, whose outlines we can but dimly seize, but Charles stands before us firm and masterful, a living man, whom we can understand and admire. ' He was tall and stoutly built,' writes his chronicler, Einhard ; ' his height just seven times the length of his own foot. His head was round, his eyes large and lively, his nose somewhat above the common size, his expression bright and cheerful. Whether he stood or sat his form was full...
Էջ 407 - Neustrian dominions which had been left him, though the child of his father's declining years had been specially commended to his protection. But he did not follow up his threats by any prompt action against the young king, but went off to Germany to conclude the campaign against his war of the brother Lewis of Bavaria, which his dead father thr« brothers. had left half finished. But on arriving in Bavaria he did not strike down his enemy, but made a six months' truce with him, and returned to Neustria.
Էջ 207 - But I will pardon your faults if you will submit to me, and come hither with your wife and children, and I will give you lands, vineyards, and olive groves, and look upon you with a kindly aspect. Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not even able to save himself from the Jews, who killed him by nailing him to a cross.
Էջ 382 - It was but a short epitaph considering the mighty deeds of him who lay beneath, but no length of words could have done justice to his greatness. A far better memorial was left to him in the hearts of his subjects ; his name survived in the mouths...