Europe, 476-918Rivington, Percival & Company, 1895 - 532 էջ |
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... royal appellation . He would not have deigned to call himself ' king of the Italians ; ' to call himself king of the Scyrri or Turcilingi , or any other of the tribes who furnished part of his host , would have been to assume an ...
... royal appellation . He would not have deigned to call himself ' king of the Italians ; ' to call himself king of the Scyrri or Turcilingi , or any other of the tribes who furnished part of his host , would have been to assume an ...
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... royal domains , worked by his bailiffs . Of the smaller estates , tilled by the provincials who owned them , he made two parts ; those in the province of Africa proper and the best of those beyond it , were appropriated and made into ...
... royal domains , worked by his bailiffs . Of the smaller estates , tilled by the provincials who owned them , he made two parts ; those in the province of Africa proper and the best of those beyond it , were appropriated and made into ...
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... royal towns of Ravenna , Pavia , and Verona did the Goths become an appreciable element in the urban population . Theodoric's plan for dealing with the government of con- quered Italy deserves careful study . He did not abolish the ...
... royal towns of Ravenna , Pavia , and Verona did the Goths become an appreciable element in the urban population . Theodoric's plan for dealing with the government of con- quered Italy deserves careful study . He did not abolish the ...
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... royal hall , ' as Boethius called them - Theodoric kept up a full establishment of Roman officials , bearing the old titles that had been used under the empire - praetorian praefects , masters of the offices , quaestors , and notaries ...
... royal hall , ' as Boethius called them - Theodoric kept up a full establishment of Roman officials , bearing the old titles that had been used under the empire - praetorian praefects , masters of the offices , quaestors , and notaries ...
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... royal hoard at Ravenna amounted to no less than 40,000 pounds weight of gold , £ 1,600,000 in hard cash . Theodoric's wise administration at home was accompanied by an equally firm and able foreign policy . His first care was to ...
... royal hoard at Ravenna amounted to no less than 40,000 pounds weight of gold , £ 1,600,000 in hard cash . Theodoric's wise administration at home was accompanied by an equally firm and able foreign policy . His first care was to ...
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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...