Istanbul

The configuration of this locality was as follows. The Praetorium stood on a hill, not a hill of rock but of earth, and the...

First he completed a tortoise with a battering-ram, an indescribable object, and rolled it up to the eastern side of the city. And merely...

For the whole of that winter he made plans and examined every comer to see at which point Dyrrachium could be taken. But when...

By this time the day had broken, the Emperor glanced through the writings and recognized that his assassination had been arranged, and sent orders...

Now one Constantine, a eunuch, who had been the table-servant of the Emperor’s father and now waited on the Empress, was standing outside the...

There the man who had just escaped one assassin would have been like to fall under the hands of another, had not the Divine...

The Final Defeat of Bohemond : The Treaty of Devol. (1107-8)I We were, one and all, astounded at the Emperor’s dignified attitude. But although...

For as often as they are seen in their pictorial representations, people who look at them are ardently lifted up to the memory and...

This reverence will be expressed in signs determined by custom and etiquette. It must be noted that all outward marks of respect are only...

So in the First Commandment we must distinguish the clauses — “Thou shalt not have strange gods before me”, “Thou shall not adore them...