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Often appears with: conquest, plunder, and captives · forms of government · zante · voyages and seafaring · venetians and cephalonia · strategy and the aims of war · st. john chrysostom · soldaia/sudak · selim · religious persecution and toleration · rank, class, and social order · polo brothers departure
Usually: narrative (6) · detachment (4) · confronting death (3) · sudden reversal of fortune (2) · censure (2) · argument (1) · the fall of the great (1) · lament (1) · wonder (1)
“The sovereign of that empire assumed, and obstinately retained, the vain, and at length fictitious, title of Emperor of the Romans; and the hereditary appellation of Caesar and Augustus continued to declare, that he was the legitimate successor of the first of men, who had reigned over the first of nations.” Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · insight
“The form of government was a pure and simple monarchy; the name of the Roman Republic, which so long preserved a faint tradition of freedom, was confined to the Latin provinces; and the princes of Constantinople measured their greatness by the servile obedience of their people.” Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · observation
“And when they came into the main sea, towards Constantinople (upon the faithful promise of the said Christian captives) these four Englishmen leapt suddenly into the crossia--that is, into the middest of the galley, where the cannon lieth--and with their swords drawn, did fight against all the foresaid Turks.” Richard Hakluyt, Voyager's Tales · vivid
He says he was carried to Constantinople and made a sea master by the Ottoman Selim, then rows in the Navarino campaign, witnessing how Turkish ships escaped, and later describes the cruel capture of the Prize galley.
joy, and the only captive among so many free; for there were fifteen thousand Christians, all at the oar in the Turkish fleet, that regained their longed-for liberty that day. They carried me to Constantinople, where the Grand Turk, Selim, made my master general at sea for having done his duty in the battle and carried off as evidence of his bravery the standard of the Order of Malta. The following year, which was t…
Julian reforms the palace of Constantinople by cutting luxury offices and eunuch-dominated extravagance; he mocks court magnificence, sleeps on the ground, and despises royal pomp rather than imitating it.
Augustus indulged their taste, or his own, by his constant attention to the important business of the Circus, for which he professed the warmest inclination. Sueton. in August. c. xlv.] The reformation of the Imperial court was one of the first and most necessary acts of the government of Julian. 53 Soon after his entrance into the palace of Constantinople, he had occasion for the service of a barb…
Jovian marches from Antioch through Cappadocia, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia, delegates command in Gaul and Illyricum, and moves toward Constantinople; his unexpected death occurs near Ancyra (Dadastana), prompting rumours and burial plans in Constantinople.
religion. Each of them turned away from the object which he disliked, and wished to suppress the part of the edict the least honorable, in his opinion, to the emperor.] In the space of seven months, the Roman troops, who were now returned to Antioch, had performed a march of fifteen hundred miles; in which they had endured all the hardships of war, of famine, and of climate. Notwithstanding their s…
After clashes near Argentaria/Colmar in Alsace, Gratian defeats the Alemanni, then Valens returns to Constantinople and faces pressure from the Hippodrome, which pushes him toward a rash march against the Goths near Hadrianople.
son of Valentinian seemed to possess the talents of peace and war; and his personal success against the Alemanni was interpreted as a sure presage of his Gothic triumphs. 87 86 (return) [ The field of battle, *Argentaria* or *Argentovaria*, is accurately fixed by M. D’Anville (Notice de l’Ancienne Gaule, p. 96—99) at twenty-three Gallic leagues, or thirty-four and a half Roman miles to the south of…
Gibbon argues that dividing the Roman world among Theodosius’s sons entrenched the Eastern Empire’s long, slow decline, and he depicts emperors at Constantinople as maintaining fictitious Roman titles and an enervating monarchy.
I. Arcadius Emperor Of The East.—Administration And Disgrace Of Eutropius.—Revolt Of Gainas.—Persecution Of St. John Chrysostom.—Theodosius II. Emperor Of The East.—His Sister Pulcheria.—His Wife Eudocia.—The Persian War, And Division Of Armenia. The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the rei…
In 1260, the brothers Polo leave Constantinople for Soldaia across the sea for trade, planning a crossing of the Greater Sea with jewels, whose date is discussed in notes.
HOW THE TWO BROTHERS WENT ON BEYOND SOLDAIA. Having stayed a while at Soldaia, they considered the matter, and thought it well to extend their journey further. So they set forth from Soldaia and travelled till they came to the Court of a certain Tartar Prince, BARCA KAAN by name, whose residences were at SARA{1} and at BOLGARA [and who was esteemed one of the most liberal and courteous Princes that ever was among th…
The narrative recounts the later sufferings and deaths around Tripoli and at sea: plague losses among captives, the death of the king’s white mare, travel to Zante and Constantinople, plots by circumcised Englishmen, and a Venetian raid near Cephalonia that frees Christians.
to buy his victuals for him and his company, and he delivered me money needful for the same. Thus were we set at liberty the 28th day of April, 1585. Now, to return to the king's plagues and punishments which Almighty God at his will and pleasure sendeth upon men in the sight of the world, and likewise of the plagues that befell his children and others aforesaid. First, when we were made bondmen, being the second d…