Castle Guardianship
There isn’t even any tavern, and places serving zythum don’t exist either. The inhabitants engage in fishing, castle guardianship, and boat rowing. The hills...
A Unique Planet Bahcesaray
Bahcesaray, formerly known as Mukus, is undeniably one of the most intriguing places in our country. Despite having a stable population of around 6...
Constantinople with the traditional insignia
Odoacer went on to behave in as natural and Roman a way as one could expect. He sent ambassadors to Constantinople with the traditional...
Severinus’s death left the community at the mercy of brutes
Severinus’s death left the community at the mercy of brutes. A bad barbarian (a son of the good king we just heard of) sacked...
Rebaptize catholic Christians
His world was full of good barbarians and bad barbarians. Roman forces—or, to be more precise, the forces that Rome paid—were fading away, leaving...
Zoe and Theodora part 98
147. These two friends were John Xiphilinus, a native of Trebizond, who had been appointed Professor of Law (Nomophylax) in the University of Constantinople...
Zoe and Theodora part 97
116. In September 1047.
117. The army of the East was at this time engaged in Armenia Magna.
118. In the part near the monastery of...
Zoe and Theodora part 96
105. The protospatharius Pardus owed his appointment as successor to Maniaces not to any outstanding ability but to the fact that he was known...
Zoe and Theodora part 95
97. Sclerena was a niece of Pulcheria, sister of Romanus Sclerus and grand-daughter of Bardas. She had shared Constantine’s exile on Lesbos. She was...
