Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 53
n, in a well-known passage, exposes one of the causes whichweakened the fibre of the East-Roman Empire. Alone in the universe/he says, the self-satisfied pride of the Greeks was not disturbed by foreignmerit; and it is no wonder that they fainted in the race, since they hadneither competitors to… … Fio. 14. Leaf of an ivory-triptych of the twelfth century :St. John the Baptist and an epis-copal saint. (British Museum.) INTRODUCTORY: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 29 elements of truth. In the Middle Ages, Western Europe held Constan-tinople a place possessed, as it were by divine right, of…
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