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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... married Sophia the daughter of the son and colleague of the Emperor Romanos I. , the father - in- law of Constantine . Niketas was a favourite Sclavonian name at this time . The Greek church had a Sclavonian patriarch Niketas from A.D. ...
... married Sophia the daughter of the son and colleague of the Emperor Romanos I. , the father - in- law of Constantine . Niketas was a favourite Sclavonian name at this time . The Greek church had a Sclavonian patriarch Niketas from A.D. ...
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... marriage of slaves , and if their masters attempted to deprive them of the nuptial benediction , and of the rights of Christianity , then the slaves were to be proclaimed free . Alexius I. declares that human society and laws have ...
... marriage of slaves , and if their masters attempted to deprive them of the nuptial benediction , and of the rights of Christianity , then the slaves were to be proclaimed free . Alexius I. declares that human society and laws have ...
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... married the daughter of the King of France . The army of Bohemund , like that of William the Conqueror , whose glory he expected to eclipse , was composed of warlike adventurers from Normandy , France , and Germany . The winter was ...
... married the daughter of the King of France . The army of Bohemund , like that of William the Conqueror , whose glory he expected to eclipse , was composed of warlike adventurers from Normandy , France , and Germany . The winter was ...
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... marriage with the church , while , as the Greeks sagaciously observed , the marriage of bishops is altogether unlawful ; and , to complete the folly of this disastrous quarrel , the Greek clergy even made it a crime that the Latin ...
... marriage with the church , while , as the Greeks sagaciously observed , the marriage of bishops is altogether unlawful ; and , to complete the folly of this disastrous quarrel , the Greek clergy even made it a crime that the Latin ...
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... marriage of Isaac of Cyprus with the sister of William II . of Sicily was both a popular and a politic alliance ; but the bad government of Isaac , and the commercial selfishness of his subjects , had destroyed every sentiment of ...
... marriage of Isaac of Cyprus with the sister of William II . of Sicily was both a popular and a politic alliance ; but the bad government of Isaac , and the commercial selfishness of his subjects , had destroyed every sentiment of ...
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