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...
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...
Michael IV part 3
5. So lived Romanus and such was the funeral with which he was honoured. Despite the work and expense involved in the building of...
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...
Michael IV part 4
9. Clearly it was not a noble beginning for a man promoted to supreme power, as I have shown. Nevertheless, for a short period...
Antiochus Strategos part 5
I know that it may seem very bold on my part to write this book when there are so many holy priests capable of...
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...
Alexius Part 15
He also brought an order from the Emperor to my father to proceed against Basilacius, who in his turn had now assumed the diadem,...
Alexius Part 31
When either side (to wit, Henry, King of Germany, and the Pope) had brought up their armies, and set them in battle array, directly...
Antiochus Strategos part 9
As the sickness increased, his weary limbs grew cold and stiff, and in this way he breathed his last. As soon as the two...
