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...
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...
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,...
Second Battle with Heresy part 34
Isangeles he liked especially because of his superior wisdom and genuine sincerity and purity of life, also because he recognized that he valued truth...
Second Battle with Heresy part 33
Bohemund was overjoyed and after thanking for the present he went away to rest in the house where he lodged. But when these treasures...
Second Battle with Heresy part 32
Nor was he wrong in his surmise. For that dreadful Bohemund not only refrained from tasting the viands at all, or even touching them...
Second Battle with Heresy part 31
XI So much then about Godfrey and Raoul and the others who accompanied them. Now when Bohemund reached Apros with the other Counts, he...
Second Battle with Heresy part 30
As they would not obey, for they were expecting Bohemund to arrive, but found various means of evasion by continually making some fresh demands,...
Second Battle with Heresy part 29
Now the Emperor in his great prudence reflected that if they joined Godfrey and related what had happened to them, the latter would be...
