Saksagan
Michael IV part 2
3. This proclamation was arranged in the evening by the new emperor’s personal friends. Immediately afterwards, a twofold order was sent to the City...
Michael IV part 1
Michael IV 1034 – 1041
1. Such was the manner of Romanus’s death, after a reign of five and a half years. The empress Zoe,...
Alexius Part 14
But Bryennius, in fear of his life resembled a maniac, and was by no means in need of rest, for how should a man...
Antiochus Strategos part 13
At that time there were seven companions with Willibald and he made the eighth. Almost at once they were arrested by the pagan Saracens,...
Antiochus Strategos part 14
This Spaniard had a brother at the king’s court, who was the chamberlain of the King of the Saracens. And when the governor who...
Antiochus Strategos part 1
Antiochus Strategos: The Sack of Jerusalem (614)
Byzantine law granted toleration to Jews , although there were occasional attempts at forced conversion , but there...
Antiochus Strategos part 16
On the very place where Christ was baptized and where they now baptize there stands a little wooden cross: a little stream of water...
Antiochus Strategos part 12
If Miletus is meant, the pilgrims must have landed there before reaching Patara. The only place between Patara and Chelidonia is a town,...
Antiochus Strategos part 4
His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...
Antiochus Strategos part 3
How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamel! How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were massacred...
