History of the Byzantine Empire 1
History of the Byzantine Empire 1
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Schlosser, 524, remarks that he has found no authority to authorise the reproaches of excessive tyranny. Even the Jesuit Maimbourg, Ifittoire de VHirisie det IconodasteSj ii. 233, mentions the imprisonment of Methodios with a dead robber, and the branding verses on the foreheads of Theodore and Theophanes, (if the latter suffered this punish- ment,) as the most inhimian acts of Theophilus. Contin. 66.
The story that Theodora persuaded her husband to believe that some images of saints in her pos...session were only dolls for her children's amusement, is a popular anecdote more deserving of a place in the dull Legends of the Saints than in the Byzantine tales.
■ Codinus, De Orig. Conet, 28. Banduri, Imp, Orient, ii. 648.
ENCOURAOBMBNT OP ART. 179 at the same time, he gratified his love of display in a.d.
architecture, by constructing palaces, at an enormous ^29-342.
expense, in no very durable manner. One of these, built in imitation of the great palace of the caliphs at Bagdat, was erected at Bryas, on the Asiatic shore.^ The varied form, the peculiar arches, the coloured decorations, the mathematical tracery, and the rich gilding, had induced John the Grammarian, when he visited the Caliph Motas- sem as ambassador from Theophilus, to bring back draw- ings and plans of this building, which was totally dif- ferent from the Byzantine style then in use.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Schlosser, 524, remarks that he has found no authority to authorise the reproaches of excessive tyranny. Even the Jesuit Maimbourg, Ifittoire de VHirisie det IconodasteSj ii. 233, mentions the imprisonment of Methodios with a dead robber, and the branding verses on the foreheads of Theodore and Theophanes, (if the latter suffered this punish- ment,) as the most inhimian acts of Theophilus. Contin. 66.
The story that Theodora persuaded her husband to believe that some images of saints in her pos...session were only dolls for her children's amusement, is a popular anecdote more deserving of a place in the dull Legends of the Saints than in the Byzantine tales.
■ Codinus, De Orig. Conet, 28. Banduri, Imp, Orient, ii. 648.
ENCOURAOBMBNT OP ART. 179 at the same time, he gratified his love of display in a.d.
architecture, by constructing palaces, at an enormous ^29-342.
expense, in no very durable manner. One of these, built in imitation of the great palace of the caliphs at Bagdat, was erected at Bryas, on the Asiatic shore.^ The varied form, the peculiar arches, the coloured decorations, the mathematical tracery, and the rich gilding, had induced John the Grammarian, when he visited the Caliph Motas- sem as ambassador from Theophilus, to bring back draw- ings and plans of this building, which was totally dif- ferent from the Byzantine style then in use.
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