Theoderic or Boethius saw
If it then happened that this man and his colleagues were in correspondence with leading figures in Constantinople and if they were known to...
Boethius’s presentation requires
Boethius’s presentation requires the historian-detective to offer several observations. First, wanting the senate to be safe and hoping for Rome’s liberty are either meaningless...
Michael IV part 27
Roman forces in Sicily and it was not long before all Maniaces’ conquests
49. Not strictly correct. John was speaking of his brother-in-law, Stephen, husband...
Michael IV part 26
His respiration was laboured already and he was beginning to breathe his last, so he again went to his couch and lay down. For...
Michael IV part 25
The Emperor’s Tonsure
52. The emperor, before the decease of his body, sought another more spiritual, change. He disdained the imperial rank which he was...
Michael IV part 24
This proposition being acceptable to the emperor, further communications passed between them, in great secrecy, as Alousianus had desired. In accordance with the terms...
Michael IV part 23
He referred to his father in an impersonal way, as though he himself was a member of another family. He then proceeded to speak...
Michael IV part 22
The Escape Of Alousianus To Bulgaria
45. The war had not yet broken out when a most astonishing thing happened — something nearly as amazing...
Michael IV part 21
The Emperor’s Bulgarian Expedition
43. This thought afflicted the emperor much more than physical suffering, and the harm it produced in him was quite different,...
Michael IV part 20
He did not claim to be the legitimate heir of these kings, but he either invented or proved that he was a collateral relation....
