Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 10
And, indeed, there was not one of my companions who, having drunk from the same cup of sorrow, did not fear that his last...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 9
And how, I ask, can he even on land resist we with his scanty forces? His son was there, his wife was there, the...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 8
And as, like a creeping monster, he proceeded thither, the singers cried out in adulation: “Behold the morning star approaches Eos rises; he reflects...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 7
But, in order that now all deceit may be laid bare and the truth not be bidden, my master (Otto) has sent me to...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 6
Had he not done so he would have been impious, unjust, cruel a tyrant. It is well known that Berengar and Adalbert, becoming his...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 5
“It would have been right for us, nay, we had wished to receive you kindly and with honor; but the impiety of your master...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 4
But on the eighth day before the Ides (June 6), on the Saturday before Pentecost, I was led into the presence of his brother...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 3
It was upon the princess Theophano that the hopes of the emperor were fixed, and it was thought that Nicephorus would give Apulia and...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 2
Nevertheless, in the mid-tenth century the productive hinterland of Constantinople was no longer trampled under the boots of Bulgarian troops. Perhaps the most significant...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 1
Byzantine Relations with Northern Peoples in the Tenth Century
Introduction
Byzantine relations with Bulgaria were complicated in the early years of the tenth century: more complicated...
