Word: emperor
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Conversely, says the professor of Byzantine History and Literature, "When an emperor writes a text in the 10th century, everyone thinks he is the author...
...matter of fact, for more than 300 years, Sevcenko says, scholars have generally thought that a 10th-century manuscript chronicling the life of Basil, a ninth-century Byzantine emperor, was written by the ruler's grandson, the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus...
...needed money to build St. Peter's Basilica, granted the appointment-for 24,000 gold pieces, roughly equal to the annual imperial revenues in Germany. It was worth it. Besides being a rich source of income, the Mainz post brought Albrecht a vote for the next Holy Roman Emperor, which could be sold to the highest bidder...
...following year Luther was summoned to recant his writings before the Diet of Worms, a council of princes convened by the young Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In his closing defense, Luther proclaimed defiantly: "Unless I am convinced by testimony from Holy Scriptures and clear proofs based on reason - because, since it is notorious that they have erred and contradicted themselves, I cannot believe either the Pope or the council alone - I am bound by conscience and the Word of God. Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to act against one's conscience is neither safe...
Growing so hugely expensive that they have been threatening to collapse under their own deficits, the Games have not been at such risk since A.D. 394, when the athletes' grumbling displeasure with olive-wreath prizes caused Roman Emperor Theodosius I to halt the competition in dismay for 1,502 years. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French idealist whose practical side was underrated, revived the Olympics in 1896 in the name of international amity but with a plea for fiscal sanity that is near to the heart of Peter Ueberroth, 46, the Olympian Cash McCall. For, in a way, this...