- The
Devastatio Constantinopolitana ("Devastation of Constantinople") is a
short anonymous Latin eyewitness account of the
Fourth Crusade. It
covers the...
- the city was also
called 'Second Rome', 'Eastern Rome', and Roma
Constantinopolitana (Latin for 'Constantinopolitan Rome'). As the city
became the sole...
- Βυζαντιάς Ῥώμη, "Byzantine Rome"; ἑῴα Ῥώμη, "Eastern Rome"; and Roma
Constantinopolitana.: 354 The term "New Rome" was used to
indicate that Byzantium, thereafter...
-
Theodosius fell ill, and was baptized.
According to the
Consularia Constantinopolitana,
Theodosius arrived at
Constantinople and
staged an adventus, a ritual...
- and author,
writing in Latin. His best-known work is his
Historia Constantinopolitana about the
Fourth Crusade, in a
mixture of
prose and verse. It was...
- the
historian Liutprand of
Cremona and his
Relatio de
Legatione Constantinopolitana. In 968,
Liutprand was sent to
Constantinople to
arrange a marriage...
- also of interest. The
Fourth Crusade is
described in the
Devastatio Constantinopolitana and
works of
Geoffrey of Villehardouin, in his
chronicle De la Conquête...
-
court by
Bishop Liutprand of
Cremona in his
Relatio de
legatione Constantinopolitana. His
description of
Nikephoros was
clouded by the ill-treatment he...
- The
capital would often be
compared to the 'old' Rome as Nova Roma
Constantinopolitana, the "New Rome of Constantinople".
Constantine was the
first emperor...
- in Constantinople. On 25
August 383,
according to the
Consularia Constantinopolitana,
Gratian was
killed at
Lugdunum (Lyon) by Andragathius, the magister...
