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How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamel! How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were massacred...

On the contrary they destroyed persons of every age, massacred them like animals, cut them into pieces, mowed sundry of them down like cabbages,...

Antiochus Strategos: The Sack of Jerusalem (614)Byzantine law granted toleration to Jews , although there were occasional attempts at forced conversion , but there...

But Bryennius, in fear of his life resembled a maniac, and was by no means in need of rest, for how should a man...

His respiration was laboured already and he was beginning to breathe his last, so he again went to his couch and lay down. For...

The Emperor’s Tonsure52. The emperor, before the decease of his body, sought another more spiritual, change. He disdained the imperial rank which he was...

This proposition being acceptable to the emperor, further communications passed between them, in great secrecy, as Alousianus had desired. In accordance with the terms...

He referred to his father in an impersonal way, as though he himself was a member of another family. He then proceeded to speak...

The Escape Of Alousianus To Bulgaria45. The war had not yet broken out when a most astonishing thing happened — something nearly as amazing...

The Emperor’s Bulgarian Expedition43. This thought afflicted the emperor much more than physical suffering, and the harm it produced in him was quite different,...