Roman citizen of good standing
Then there was Basanius, one of the Green faction, a prominent young man, who incurred her anger by making some uncomplimentary remark. Basanius, warned...
Chapter VI – Byzantium
One of the oddities Byzantine studies is that it has long attracted homosexual scholars, but virtually none of them have written about Byzantine homosexuality....
Rejecting the commentaries
But the Mishnah, or as they call it the second tradition, we prohibit entirely. For it is not part of the sacred books, nor...
APPENDIX NOVELLA 146 OF JUSTINIAN
8.II.553. Nov.146. Justinian to Areobindas, P.P.
A Permission granted to the Hebrews to read the Sacred Scriptures according to Tradition, in Greek, Latin or any...
Constantinople in the month of August
He himself at once set out from Constantinople in the month of August in the fourth Indiction, leaving Isaac in the capital to carry...
The Roman and Venetian fleets guarded the straits
But as he could not proceed to put his plans into action, for strong winds were blowing at the time and he feared shipwreck,...
Bohemund came demanding their acclamations
In these they placed armed men and cut up heavy beams into pieces about a foot-and-a-half long and studded them with sharp iron nails...
Hugh the Great of France
As we said above, there were among the Latins such men as Bohemund and his fellow counsellors, who, eager to obtain the Roman Empire...
The Byzantines Save Peter the Hermit
But relying on the multitude of those who followed him, Peter did not heed the warning and, after crossing the strait, pitched camp at...
The Arrival of the Crusaders
. . . Moreover, Alexius was not yet, or very slightly, rested from his labors when he heard rumors of the arrival of innumerable...
