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Often appears with: revolution and the fall of states · return to venice · recognition of the polos · monarchy and royal succession · language, naming, and meaning · forms of government · empire and the rule of provinces · eastern roman empire · custom and the manners of a people · corte del millioni · constantinople · arcadius
Usually: argument (1) · narrative (1) · the fall of the great (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (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
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…
A tradition says the three Polo travelers returned to Venice after long absence, were not recognized by relatives, changed in accent and appearance, and lived at the house near St. John Chrysostom that later became known as the Corte del Millioni.
say, devised a scheme by which they should at once bring about their recognition by their relatives, and secure the honourable notice of the whole city; and this was it:— “They invited a number of their kindred to an entertainment, which they took care to have prepared with great state and splendour in that house of theirs; and when the hour arrived for sitting down to table they came forth of their chamber al…