Dark Ages, 476-918
by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (9781150294082)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Rivington Subjects: Middle Ages Europe Middle ages History / Europe / General History / Military / World War II History / Medieval Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Medieval Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE EMPERORS AT CONSTANTINOPLE 476-527 Contrast between the fates of the Eastern and Western Empires -- The East recovers its strength -- Leo I. and the Isaurians -- The Emperor Zeno and the rebellion against him -- Wars of Zeno with the two Theodorics, 478- 483 -- The ' Henoticon ' -- Character of the Emperor Anastasius -- Rebellion of the Isaurians -- War with Persia, 503-5 -- The ' Blue and Green' Factions -- Rebellion of Vitalian -- Accession of Justin I. At Rome the emperors of the third quarter of the fifth century -- all the ephemeral Caesars whose blood-stained annals fill the space between the death of Valentinian in. and the usurpation of Odoacer -- had been the mere creatures of the barbarian, or semi-barbarian, ' patricians' and ' masters of the soldiers,' to whom they owed alike their elevations and their untimely ends. The history of those troubled years would be more logically arranged under the names of the Caesar-makers, Ricimer, Gundobad, Orestes, than under those of the unhappy puppets whom they manipulated. But, when we turn our eyes eastward to Constantinople, we are surprised to find how entirely different was the aspect of affairs. The Western Empire was rapidly falling to pieces, province after province dropping out of the power of the emperor, and becoming part of the realm of some Gothic, Burgundian, or Vandal prince, who paid the most shadowy homage, or no homage...

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