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... Italy and France 128 1200 Persecution of the Albigeois Character and Consequences of the Reformation 130 131 CHAPTER LV The Bulgarians - Origin , Migrations and Settlement of the Hungarians — Their Inroads in the East and West - The ...
... Italy and France 128 1200 Persecution of the Albigeois Character and Consequences of the Reformation 130 131 CHAPTER LV The Bulgarians - Origin , Migrations and Settlement of the Hungarians — Their Inroads in the East and West - The ...
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... Italy 871 Conquest of Bari ... 890 New Province of the Greeks in Italy 983 [ 982 ] Defeat of Otho III . [ II . ] Anecdotes 1016 Origin of the Normans in Italy 1029 [ 1030 ] Foundation of Aversa 1038 The Normans serve in Sicily 1040-1043 ...
... Italy 871 Conquest of Bari ... 890 New Province of the Greeks in Italy 983 [ 982 ] Defeat of Otho III . [ II . ] Anecdotes 1016 Origin of the Normans in Italy 1029 [ 1030 ] Foundation of Aversa 1038 The Normans serve in Sicily 1040-1043 ...
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... Italy and the Western Empire Failure of his Designs 1156 Peace with the Normans ... ... 1185 Last War of the Greeks and Normans 1154-1166 William I. the Bad , King of Sicily 1166-1189 William II . the Good ... ... Lamentation of the ...
... Italy and the Western Empire Failure of his Designs 1156 Peace with the Normans ... ... 1185 Last War of the Greeks and Normans 1154-1166 William I. the Bad , King of Sicily 1166-1189 William II . the Good ... ... Lamentation of the ...
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... 579 MAPS Map of Southern Italy and Sicily in the Ninth , Tenth and Eleventh Centuries Map Illustrating the Crusades ... *** To face page 183 306 ... ILLUSTRATIONS ( SELECTED BY O. M. DALTON , M.A. , xvi CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.
... 579 MAPS Map of Southern Italy and Sicily in the Ninth , Tenth and Eleventh Centuries Map Illustrating the Crusades ... *** To face page 183 306 ... ILLUSTRATIONS ( SELECTED BY O. M. DALTON , M.A. , xvi CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.
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... their first introduction to the West are uncertain , but we find them used in Italy in the 13th cent . ] new language of the empire , were styled of the 6 [ CHAP . LII THE DECLINE AND FALL 716-718 Second Siege of Constantinople.
... their first introduction to the West are uncertain , but we find them used in Italy in the 13th cent . ] new language of the empire , were styled of the 6 [ CHAP . LII THE DECLINE AND FALL 716-718 Second Siege of Constantinople.
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Сторінка 27 - and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to FOURTEEN
Сторінка 12 - like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. The use of the Greek or, as it might now be called, of the Saracen fire was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century,
Сторінка 11 - which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state; the galleys and artillery might occasionally be lent to the allies of
Сторінка 450 - and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. DIGRESSION ON THE FAMILY
Сторінка 355 - the grandson of Barbarossa, was successively the pupil, the enemy, and the victim of the church. At the age of twenty-one years, and in obedience to his guardian Innocent the Third, he assumed the cross; the same promise was repeated at his royal and imperial coronations; and his marriage with the heiress of Jerusalem
Сторінка 160 - ships of war, each of which, with its naval science and thundering artillery, could have sunk or scattered an hundred canoes, such as those of their ancestors. Perhaps the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable.
Сторінка 25 - of dinars of gold. A pious and charitable motive may sanctify the foundation of cisterns and caravanseras, which he distributed along a measured road of seven hundred miles; but his train of camels, laden with snow, could serve only to astonish the natives of Arabia, and to refresh the fruits and liquors of the royal banquet.
Сторінка 189 - His boundless ambition was founded on the consciousness of superior worth; in the pursuit of greatness, he was never arrested by the scruples of justice and seldom moved by the feelings of humanity; though not insensible of fame, the choice of open or clandestine means was determined only by his present advantage. The surname of Guiscard
Сторінка 26 - of the gardens, one of these basons and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest quicksilver. The seraglio of Abdalrahman, his wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted to six thousand three hundred persons; and he was
Сторінка 519 - the next day the insult was repeated, and they exulted in a second proof that the royal city was not beyond the reach of their artillery. Cantacuzene instantly signed his treaty with the Venetians; but the weight of the Roman empire was scarcely felt in the balance of these opulent and powerful republics.*