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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...

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

5. So lived Romanus and such was the funeral with which he was honoured. Despite the work and expense involved in the building of...

His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...

9. Clearly it was not a noble beginning for a man promoted to supreme power, as I have shown. Nevertheless, for a short period...

I know that it may seem very bold on my part to write this book when there are so many holy priests capable of...

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

If Miletus is meant, the pilgrims must have landed there before reaching Patara. The only place between Patara and Chelidonia is a town,...

At that time there were seven companions with Willibald and he made the eighth. Almost at once they were arrested by the pagan Saracens,...

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...