Life

When I first undertook the work, the late Dr. W. H. D. Rouse gave me sound advice, and as I neared the end, Professor Arthur E. Gordon, of the University of California, offered some...

For that reason has deprived from many citizens of their property without giving any notice of the existing chrysobulls (certificates of holdings without taxation) which are the main reason that creates tyrants. He engaged...

The people had the impression that suddenly for first time in our days our neighbouring peoples have infiltrated the borders of the Romans and were intruded suddenly in our lands but for me a...

Romanos was emperor until his defeat and capture at the Battle of Mantzikert. It is possible that this defeat was engineered by members of the Doukas family seeking to regain power. The results of...

Emperor Isaac when he became ill and afraid that he may die pronounced emperor one of his generals, Constantine Doukas and he became a monk in the monastery of Stoudion where there he died...

For this reason he was very upset, bur thought he had big heart he did not think a lot about it. He gathered the generals and he announced to them his opinion and all...

Understanding the situation, the Zoe, and wanting a husband that he knew well the things or better to marry in order to give birth to children, she recall Constantine Monomachos from exile. (He had...

He convinced the emperor to pronounce him Caesar, and before he was adopted by empress Zoe. But not a lot of time has been passed and because of his illness he appeared more rare...

While Romanos was still alive, Michael Paphlagon took Zoe with his side because he loved him for his beauty though that he was coming from low and unknown parents, so that he succeed in...

When the Emperor Basil died, he was buried in the church of his beloved saint John the Theologian in the Hebdomon area, which he had constructed, and he left as heir his...