The History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by the Turks, and of the Empire of Trebizond: 1204-1461 |
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... feudal system in Greece , 3. Baldwin I. , • • 101 108 113 4. Henry of Flanders . Ecclesiastical arrangements . Parliament of Ravenika , 115 5. Peter of Courtenay . Robert . John de Brienne . Baldwin II . Extinction of the empire of ...
... feudal system in Greece , 3. Baldwin I. , • • 101 108 113 4. Henry of Flanders . Ecclesiastical arrangements . Parliament of Ravenika , 115 5. Peter of Courtenay . Robert . John de Brienne . Baldwin II . Extinction of the empire of ...
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... Feudal organisation of the principality , 2. Acquisition of the principality by Geffrey de Villehardoin . Geffrey L. Geffrey II . , • · 3. William Villehardoin completes the conquest of the Morea . Cedes Monemvasia , Misithra , and ...
... Feudal organisation of the principality , 2. Acquisition of the principality by Geffrey de Villehardoin . Geffrey L. Geffrey II . , • · 3. William Villehardoin completes the conquest of the Morea . Cedes Monemvasia , Misithra , and ...
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... feudal Europe were devoted to the study of the military art , as well as to its practice ; while , after the death of Manuel I. , the resources of the Byzan- tine empire were allowed to fall to decay , or were wasted BYZANTINE ARMY . 51 ...
... feudal Europe were devoted to the study of the military art , as well as to its practice ; while , after the death of Manuel I. , the resources of the Byzan- tine empire were allowed to fall to decay , or were wasted BYZANTINE ARMY . 51 ...
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... feudal oppression , and the champions of the people against royal tyranny . It is true that the general anarchy towards the end of the tenth century , and the social 1 1 Gregory VII . , ( the great Hildebrand , ) dying at Salerno ...
... feudal oppression , and the champions of the people against royal tyranny . It is true that the general anarchy towards the end of the tenth century , and the social 1 1 Gregory VII . , ( the great Hildebrand , ) dying at Salerno ...
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... feudal system , produced a great revolution of discipline among the Latin clergy ; and a series of disorders pre- vailed in the Western Church to which there is no parallel , until far later times , in the Eastern . But the exertions of ...
... feudal system , produced a great revolution of discipline among the Latin clergy ; and a series of disorders pre- vailed in the Western Church to which there is no parallel , until far later times , in the Eastern . But the exertions of ...
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