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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIV

    The Eastern Roman Empire from Leo III to the Macedonian Dynasty

    THE history of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Isaurian dynasty is one of the periods in the prolonged evolution of the monarchy least easy of comprehension. The work of the sovereigns usually called the Iconoclast Emperors has been, in fact, recorded for us practically only by opponents or victims, and their impassioned reports have obviously no claim to be considered strictly ... Read more

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  • The Macedonian Dynasty

    by Albert Vogt ...
    THE race of Leo the Isaurian, which in no inglorious fashion had filled the whole of the eighth and ninth centuries with its iconoclastic struggles, social reforms, and palace intrigues, nominally died out in 867 in the person of a debauched and incapable young Emperor, Michael the Third, known as the Drunkard. The man who in consequence ascended the throne by means of a crime, and founded the ... Read more

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  • The Macedonian Dynasty

    From 867 to 1057 A.D

    by Albert Vogt ...
    THE race of Leo the Isaurian, which in no inglorious fashion had filled the whole of the eighth and ninth centuries with its iconoclastic struggles, social reforms, and palace intrigues, nominally died out in 867 in the person of a debauched and incapable young Emperor, Michael III, known as the Drunkard. The man who in consequence ascended the throne by means of a crime, and founded the ... Read more

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  • Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today

    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day. Through chapters contributed by leading international researchers, this book explores the changing legal, social and religious ... Read more

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  • Bob the Time Traveler

    Robert Warren, also known as Bob, is the son of wealthy and doting parents who gave their child everything except for brains. When it finally comes time for their son to enter college, they ensure him admission to one of the finest schools in the country on an athletic scholarship. Once there, his good looks and idiotic charm lead him to discover the school's biggest secret—a time machine. The ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IX

    Charles the Great and the Holy Roman Empire

    THE eighth century had hardly entered on its second half when the last of the long-haired Merovingians was thrust from the throne of the Franks, and Pepin the mayor of the palace hailed as king. The change seemed slight, for the new dynasty had served a long apprenticeship. For more than a century the descendants of Clovis had been mere puppets in a king's seat, while the descendants of St Arnulf, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XI

    The Holy Roman Empire Triumphant

    “THE future of the realm”, Conrad is said to have declared with his dying words, “lies with the Saxons”, and he bade his brother Everard to bear the royal insignia to Henry, the Saxon Duke, as the one man capable of restoring the glory of the German name. The union of Frank and Saxon had given the throne to Conrad on the death of Louis the Child; the same alliance was responsible for the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book X

    The Carolingian Empire and the Rise of France

    IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who had espoused his cause. It is a difficult matter to discern through the self-interested encomiums of biographers and the calumnies set afloat by political opponents, the real character of the man who ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI

    Western Europe in the Dark Ages

    AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a Roman official, by name Syagrius, exercised a kind of protection over them. Syagrius was the son of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book II

    The Triumph of Christianity

    THE old or official religions of Greece and of Rome had lost most of their power long before Constantine first declared that Christianity was henceforth to be recognized as a religio licita and then proceeded to bestow the Imperial favor on the faith which his predecessors had persecuted. Hellenism had destroyed their influence over the cultivated classes, and other religions, coming from the East ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 7 - Delphi Series Five
    First published in 1485, Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Le Morte Darthur’ remains the most definitive work of Arthurian literature in English. This comprehensive eBook presents both the original Winchester and Caxton texts, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Velleius Paterculus (Illustrated)

    Series Book 98 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    The Roman historian Velleius Paterculus lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, serving as a military tribune and later as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany and Pannonia. Written in a highly rhetorical style, his ‘Compendium of Roman History’ is a summary of Roman history from the mythical fall of Troy to AD 29. As Paterculus approaches his own times, he becomes much fuller in his ... Read more

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