Saksagan
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 9
And how, I ask, can he even on land resist we with his scanty forces? His son was there, his wife was there, the Saxons, Swabians, Bavarians, were all with him: and if they...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 8
And as, like a creeping monster, he proceeded thither, the singers cried out in adulation: “Behold the morning star approaches Eos rises; he reflects in his glances the rays of the sun-he the pale...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 7
But, in order that now all deceit may be laid bare and the truth not be bidden, my master (Otto) has sent me to you, so that if you art willing to give the...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 6
Had he not done so he would have been impious, unjust, cruel a tyrant. It is well known that Berengar and Adalbert, becoming his vassals, had received the kingdom of Italy with a golden...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 5
“It would have been right for us, nay, we had wished to receive you kindly and with honor; but the impiety of your master does not permit it since, invading it as an enemy,...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 4
But on the eighth day before the Ides (June 6), on the Saturday before Pentecost, I was led into the presence of his brother Leo, the marshal of the court, and chancellor; and there...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 3
It was upon the princess Theophano that the hopes of the emperor were fixed, and it was thought that Nicephorus would give Apulia and Calabria as her dowry. It was to arrange this matter...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 2
Nevertheless, in the mid-tenth century the productive hinterland of Constantinople was no longer trampled under the boots of Bulgarian troops. Perhaps the most significant indication of the new status quo is the absence of...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 1
Byzantine Relations with Northern Peoples in the Tenth CenturyIntroductionByzantine relations with Bulgaria were complicated in the early years of the tenth century: more complicated than many historians have allowed.The Bulgarian Tsar Symeon (c. 894-927)...
The Higher The Flight, The Lower The Fall part 1
HollandIntroductionUntil comparatively recent times Holland has not produced very much in the way of short stories. Before the beginning of the modem period, and particularly the advent of Herman Heijermans, Dutch writers were more...
