The Fall of Constantinople: Being the Story of the Fourth CrusadeLongmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 413 páginas The Fall of Constantinople: Being the Story of the Fourth Crusade by Edwin Pears, first published in 1885, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... court and domestic history , gives a useful and interesting account of the social life of Constantinople . The valuable histories of Finlay were written before most of the works to which I allude in this Preface appeared , but still ...
... court and domestic history , gives a useful and interesting account of the social life of Constantinople . The valuable histories of Finlay were written before most of the works to which I allude in this Preface appeared , but still ...
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... court and populace of Constanti- nople . We shall have occasion to see how he had encouraged foreigners to settle in the capital , and that the population believed that this was the reason why the Italians had become possessed of a ...
... court and populace of Constanti- nople . We shall have occasion to see how he had encouraged foreigners to settle in the capital , and that the population believed that this was the reason why the Italians had become possessed of a ...
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... Court intrigues . who now became emperor under the style of Alexis II . He was a weak boy , and of an age when it is absurd to charge him , as Nicetas does , with vanity , love of pleasure , and incapacity . On the death of his father ...
... Court intrigues . who now became emperor under the style of Alexis II . He was a weak boy , and of an age when it is absurd to charge him , as Nicetas does , with vanity , love of pleasure , and incapacity . On the death of his father ...
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... court with a chain round his neck , which he hid under his cloak . When he was brought into the presence of the Emperor he fell on his face , showed his chain attached to a collar around his neck , wept , and asked for pardon like the ...
... court with a chain round his neck , which he hid under his cloak . When he was brought into the presence of the Emperor he fell on his face , showed his chain attached to a collar around his neck , wept , and asked for pardon like the ...
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... court he saw that his chance was come . Apparently on his last submission he had taken the oath which he had refused on a former occasion . The terms of this oath bound him to oppose with all his power anything which tended to the ...
... court he saw that his chance was come . Apparently on his last submission he had taken the oath which he had refused on a former occasion . The terms of this oath bound him to oppose with all his power anything which tended to the ...
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