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<title><![CDATA[Wild Teenage Popes, Murderous French Brothers, and Graceful Elegant Arabs ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Day 760 &#8211; Ken here (T)(10-11-2011) (DEF III, v.5, Ch.49, pp.130-140)(pages read: 2170) a fanci]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Day 760 &#8211; Ken here (T)(10-11-2011)<br />
(DEF III, v.5, Ch.49, pp.130-140)(pages read: 2170)</p>
<div id="attachment_6071" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 176px"><a href="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/harun_al-rashid_and_the_world_of_the_thousand_and_one_nights.jpg"><img src="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/harun_al-rashid_and_the_world_of_the_thousand_and_one_nights.jpg?w=166&#038;h=303" alt="a fanciful, poetical Illustration of Harun Al-Rashid from the Thousand and One Nights" title="a fanciful, poetical Illustration of Harun Al-Rashid from the Thousand and One Nights" width="166" height="303" class="size-full wp-image-6071" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">a fanciful, poetical Illustration of Harun Al-Rashid from the Thousand and One Nights - supposedly Charlemagne and this the most famous of the Abbasid Caliphs exchanged letters, clocks, and elephants and the key to the holy sepulchre (which must have nettled the Romans to no end had they known)</p></div>
<p>I&#8217;m definitely a little under the weather here today &#8211; metaphorically and literally &#8211; it must be the beginning of Fall, it&#8217;s freezing here &#8211; and I&#8217;m still thinking through mud, so forgive any lack of cogency and a tendency to wander for extended periods off-topic.</p>
<p>We continue, as we usually do, with the next 10 pages of Gibbon in this, the Grab-bag chapter 49 &#8211; a little of everything Western, tangentially Roman (city of Rome), marginally Eastern Roman (the Eastern Empire).  We are introduced to the Holy Roman Empire and to the Papacy &#8211; as the two (Popes and Western emperors) discover each other, to their mutual benefit and discomfiture.</p>
<p>On the way, we glance briefly at one of the high points of Arab culture &#8211; Harun Al-Rashid, Abbasid Caliph, and very, very briefly look at the beginning of the Invasions of the Norsemen, the last great movements of the Migration of Peoples in Northern Europe.</p>
<p>Gibbon, being a good Prostestant, goes out of his way to demonstrate just HOW CORRUPT the Papacy had become in the 900&#8242;s and 1000&#8242;s after it had broken away from Constantinople &#8211; we follow him into the details of John XII&#8217;s papacy.  </p>
<p>On to&#8230; the Sons of Charlemagne&#8230;  </p>
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<li>Denmark to the North, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus">Umayyad Emirs</a> in Spain, Harun Al Rashid, and the briefest mention (a tangential sentence) of the Norsemen invaders of the next 2 centuries who methodically disassembled the edges of the Carolingian states (and the Britains)</li>
<li>Although Gibbon does make the interesting point that Charlemagne&#8217;s conquests in the North and East (esp of the Saxons) removed a kind of absorptive barbarian German nation, exposing the Scandinavians (from which many of the German tribes had wandered South in the migration of people&#8217;s in the last 800 years) directly to cities and manors, poss ult bringing on the invasion of the Norsemen</li>
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<li>Associates his 3 sons, divides (as all good Frankish kings did) his kingdom into parts, warning his sons to work together, ensuring that they wouldn&#8217;t &#8211; the empire promptly fell apart in civil war &#8211; Louis the Pious, Louis II, Lothaire</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_the_Pious">Louis the Pious</a> (814-840) &#8211; fought for his father in the South, as emp, fought many civil wars with his brothers and relatives</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothair_I">Lothaire I</a> (840-856) &#8211; got the middle kingdom &#8211; from germany a long middle strip into all italy</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor">Louis II</a> (856-875)</li>
<li>Gibbon stumbles over/through all the rest of the Carolingians &#8211; saying &#8220;a tame and uniform crowd of kings deserving of oblivion&#8221; &#8211; so Gibbon gives it to them</li>
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<li>888, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Fat">Charles the Fat</a> having regained the whole empire &#8211; Italy, France, Germany &#8211; lost it, and each separate region elected its own &#8220;kinglet&#8221; &#8211; the Holy Roman Emp divided into its German/French pieces, not to be joined again, well except somewhat in the EU in the latter part of the 2th cent, 12 centuries later</li>
<li>Under the Ottos, the empire spreads into Slavic lands East, and takes back some of the West Frankish lands (along the Meuse and Moselle) were East Frankish or German or Holy Roman Empire</li>
<li>Denmark, Poland, Bohemia acknowledge Ottos as vassals</li>
<li>Ottos fix the Holy Roman Empire in Germany, he who was elected by the German Diet, and who had recieved his crown from the hands of the Pope</li>
<li>Gibbon says from that time onward &#8211; late 900&#8242;s to the present &#8211; the present being 1780, what was left of the Holy Roman Empire disappeared after Bismarck in the late 1800&#8242;s and permanently with the end of the Hapsburgs at the end of WWI</li>
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<li>Gibbon relates the tedious (and predictable) course of diplomatic wrangling between Constantinople and Charlemagne&#8217;s sons over the imperial title of Emperor </li>
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<li>After that it is a constant &#8211; Greek Derision towards all things Frankish (Barbarian to them &#8211; you just have to read Anna Comnenus&#8217;s Alexiad to see HOW DEEP and WIDE was the Greek Scorn)</li>
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<li>Originally the Popes as bishops of Rome were elected by the various Catholic potentates of the city &#8211; the 28 Cardinal Priests of the Parishes of Rome, the 7 Deacons of the Hospitals, the 7 Palatine Judges of the Lateran &#8211; directed by the 7 Cardinal Bishops of the Dioceses of the Roman Province &#8211; they were chosen by the Cardinals, subject to ratification by the Emperor &#8211; which is AS IT WAS IN EVERY CITY IN THE EMPIRE &#8211; the emperor had a say in who was elected bishop &#8211; remember the Bishops had much temporal power also, so they were partly civil officials also (justice, hospitals, the poor, widowed, etc)</li>
<li>Often these &#8220;elections&#8221; were disputed by different parties, and much rioting and blood was spilt &#8211; 800&#8242;s, 900&#8242;s &#8211; often Roman Senators, Marks of Tuscany, Counts Tusculum held the office</li>
<li>Example of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XII">John XII</a>(955-965) &#8211; who ruled as a temporal lord of 10th cent Italy &#8211; however with Otto I, John XII signed a guarantee that pledged the defense of the Papacy to the Holy Roman Emperor &#8211; beginning of the German Emperors special relationship of protection with the Popes</li>
<li>German Emperors made and unmade Popes at will, of course until <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canossa_Castle">Castle at Canossa</a> (in 1077) &#8211; to which the Holy Roman Emperor<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_to_Canossa"> Henry IV was forced to walk</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_VII">Pope Gregory VII</a> (1073-1085) began the reform of the Papacy, including the aforementioned enforced-emperor-Canossa-walk</li>
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<p><div id="attachment_6077" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 360px"><a href="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/350px-canossa_ruins.jpg"><img src="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/350px-canossa_ruins.jpg?w=350&#038;h=152" alt="Photo of the ruins of Castle of Canossa in the Romagna" title="Photo of the ruins of Castle of Canossa in the Romagna" width="350" height="152" class="size-full wp-image-6077" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo of the ruins of Castle of Canossa in the Romagna, the place the German Emperor Henry IV in 1077 was forced to walk to in penance to the Pope - a kind of sweet revenge by the Papacy for a century of subservience to German Emperors</p></div><br />
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<div id="attachment_6073" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 230px"><a href="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/220px-ludwik_i_poboc5bcny.jpg"><img src="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/220px-ludwik_i_poboc5bcny.jpg?w=220&#038;h=290" alt="Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826" title="Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826" width="220" height="290" class="size-full wp-image-6073" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Winner of many civil wars within his own family - Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826 as a miles Christi (soldier of Christ), with a poem of Rabanus Maurus overlaid - from WIKI</p></div>
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<p><div id="attachment_6080" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 230px"><a href="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/220px-giovannixii.png"><img src="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/220px-giovannixii.png?w=220&#038;h=224" alt="Traditional portrait of John XII - that it CANNOT LOOK AT ALL LIKE JOHN XII is I guess beside the point" title="Traditional portrait of John XII - that it CANNOT LOOK AT ALL LIKE JOHN XII is I guess beside the point" width="220" height="224" class="size-full wp-image-6080" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Traditional portrait of John XII - that it CANNOT LOOK AT ALL LIKE JOHN XII is I guess beside the point (John was 27 when he died, he was made Pope at 19)- perhaps that is why its good to know the truth about such ivory-towered, be-pedestal-ed personages such as Popes - </p></div><br />
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<div style="font-size:larger;"><strong>The Wild Times of Pope <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XII">John XII</a></strong><br />
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The influence of two sister prostitutes, Marozia and Theodora, was founded on their wealth and beauty, their political and amorous intrigues: the most strenuous of their lovers were rewarded with the Roman mitre, and their reign may have suggested to the darker ages the fable of a female pope. </p>
<p>The bastard son, the grandson, and the great-grandson of Marozia, a rare genealogy, were seated in the chair of St. Peter, and it was at the age of nineteen years that the second of these became the head of the Latin church. His youth and manhood were of a suitable complexion; and the nations of pilgrims could bear testimony to the charges that were urged against him in a Roman synod, and in the presence of Otho the Great. As John XII. had renounced the dress and decencies of his profession, the soldier may not perhaps be dishonoured by the wine which he drank, the blood that he spilt, the flames that he kindled, or the licentious pursuits of gaming and hunting. His open simony might be the consequence of distress; and his blasphemous invocation of Jupiter and Venus, if it be true, could not possibly be serious. </p>
<p>But we read, with some surprise, that the worthy grandson of Marozia lived in public adultery with the matrons of Rome; that the Lateran palace was turned into a school for prostitution, and that his rapes of virgins and widows had deterred the female pilgrims from visiting the tomb of St. Peter, lest, in the devout act, they should be violated by his successor. <strong>The Protestants have dwelt with malicious pleasure on these characters of Antichrist; but to a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.</strong>
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<p>(DEF III, vol.5, ch.49, pp.138-139)</p>
<p>The vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues?  A little Protestant proselytizing strategy for Catholic countries? It sounds like we&#8217;re overhearing a comment of the Republican National Committee discussing a strong Democratic candidate. </p>
<p>and what&#8217;s more (just to show that Gibbon isn&#8217;t entirely out there on the fringe) here&#8217;s what WIKI says about John XII:</p>
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Pope John XII (c. 937 – May 14, 964), born Octavianus, was Pope from December 16, 955, to May 14, 964. The son of Alberic II, Patrician of Rome (932–954), and his stepsister Alda of Vienne, he was a seventh generation descendant of Charlemagne on his mother&#8217;s side.<br />
Before his death, Alberic administered an oath to the Roman nobles in St. Peter&#8217;s, that on the next vacancy of the papal chair his only son, Octavianus, should be elected pope. He succeeded his father as Patrician of Rome in 954, at only seventeen years of age. After the death of the reigning pontiff, Agapetus II, Octavanius, then eighteen years of age, was actually chosen his successor on 16 December, 955. His adoption of the apostolic name of John XII was the third example of taking a regnal name upon elevation to the papal chair, the first being John II (533–535) and the second John III. Pope John XII was depicted as a coarse, immoral man in the writings which remain about his papacy, whose life was such that the Lateran was spoken of as a brothel, and the moral corruption in Rome became the subject of general disgrace.</p>
<p>An account is given in Patrologia Latina of the charges leveled against him:<br />
Then, rising up, the cardinal priest Peter testified that he himself had seen John XII celebrate Mass without taking communion. John, bishop of Narni, and John, a cardinal deacon, professed that they themselves saw that a deacon had been ordained in a horse stable, but were unsure of the time. Benedict, cardinal deacon, with other co-deacons and priests, said they knew that he had been paid for ordaining bishops, specifically that he had ordained a ten-year-old bishop in the city of Todi&#8230; They testified about his adultery, which they did not see with their own eyes, but nonetheless knew with certainty: he had fornicated with the widow of Rainier, with Stephana his father&#8217;s concubine, with the widow Anna, and with his own niece, and he made the sacred palace into a whorehouse. They said that he had gone hunting publicly; that he had blinded his confessor Benedict, and thereafter Benedict had died; that he had killed John, cardinal subdeacon, after castrating him; and that he had set fires, girded on a sword, and put on a helmet and cuirass. All, clerics as well as laymen, declared that he had toasted to the devil with wine. They said when playing at dice, he invoked Jupiter, Venus and other demons. They even said he did not celebrate Matins and the canonical hours nor did he make the sign of the cross.</p>
<p>Enemies defeated him in battle and occupied lands that belonged to the popes. In order to protect himself against the intrigues in Rome and the power of Berengar II of Italy (950–963), John made a deal with Otto I, king of the Germans. He pledged allegiance to Otto and crowned him emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on February 2, 962. In return, Otto promised to recognize only John as pope. Ten days later, the pope and emperor ratified the Diploma Ottonianum, under which the emperor became the guarantor of the independence of the papal states. This was the first effective guarantee of such protection since the Carolingian Empire. After Otto left Rome and reconquered the Papal States from Berengar, however, John became fearful of the emperor&#8217;s power and sent envoys to the Magyars and the Byzantine Empire to form a league against Otto. His intrigues were discovered by Otto I, who, after defeating and imprisoning Berengar II, returned to Rome. Otto I subsequently summoned a council which deposed John XII, who was in hiding in the mountains of Campania, and elected Pope Leo VIII (963–965) in his stead.</p>
<p>An attempt at a revolt was made by the inhabitants of Rome even before Otto I left the city. Upon his departure, John XII returned at the head of a formidable company of friends and retainers, thus causing Leo VIII to seek safety in immediate flight. The Emperor determined to make an effort in support of Leo VIII, but before he reached the city John XII had died.</p>
<p>Pope Benedict V (964) soon succeeded him but was successfully deposed by Leo VIII.<br />
Onofrio Panvinio, in the revised edition of Bartolomeo Platina&#8217;s book about the popes, added an elaborate note indicating that the legend of Pope Joan may be based on a mistress of John XII: Panvinius, in a note to Platina&#8217;s account of pope Joan, suggests that the licentiousness of John XII, who, among his numerous mistresses, had one called Joan, who exercised the chief influence at Rome during his pontificate, may have given rise to the story of &#8220;pope Joan
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<p>(from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XII">John XII, WIKI</a>)</p>
<p>Researching our friend Pope John XII, I found this interesting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes">list of &#8220;Sexually Active  Popes&#8221;</a> &#8211; which seems a little provocative to say the least &#8211; but I guess there&#8217;s a list for everything &#8211; who knew? </p>
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<link>http://2guysreadinggibbon.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/more-popcorn-princes-eunuch-hating-and-brother-son-husband-poisoning/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ken98</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Day 748 &#8211; Ken here (Th)(9-29-2011) (DEF III, v.5, Ch.48, pp.50-60)(pages read: 2090) That]]></description>
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(DEF III, v.5, Ch.48, pp.50-60)(pages read: 2090)</p>
<div id="attachment_5881" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 289px"><a href="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/popcorn-cartoon.gif"><img src="http://2guysreadinggibbon.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/popcorn-cartoon.gif?w=279&#038;h=300" alt="That&#039;s what this chapter feels like to me - JUNK FOOD " title="That&#039;s what this chapter feels like to me - JUNK FOOD " width="279" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-5881" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">That&#039;s what this chapter feels like to me - JUNK FOOD  -  each emperor Gibbon describes is the textbook definition of fungible - look it up and see for yourself</p></div>
<p>I admit it &#8211; I&#8217;m not feeling so hot again, and as a result am just an ornery cuss today &#8211; and probably will remain so for then next week &#8211; so you were warned&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>I guess you should be careful what you wish for &#8211; sometimes you GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAY YOU WANT &#8211; and live to regret it  </strong>- in the last chapter (47, last of the 3rd Volume, 4th Book) I wanted &#8220;real&#8221; history and not just a history of heresy &#8211; NOW, we run through approximately 120 years every 10 pages.  The names are a blur.  And there ARE NO FOOTNOTES as I have mentioned.  So the whole thing begins to have the look and feel of a febrile imaginary fantasy kingdom in some badly written MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online game).  I know, I know, I&#8217;m just whining and complaining, but for the love of Mike, how can anyone get anything out of any part of what Gibbon&#8217;s writing?  It&#8217;s like watching a popcorn machine, each kernel is exactly like the other one, except GIBBON GIVES EACH ONE A SEPARATE NAME (ie the name of the emperor).</p>
<p>Again, another measure of the CONTEMPT Gibbon felt for BYZANTINE history. </p>
<p>This is just ridiculous.  It takes every particle of my resolve just to READ it each morning now, let alone WRITE ABOUT IT</p>
<p>But here goes &#8211; this is the hopeful eight-hundreds.  A time of growing consolidation and power in the Eastern Empire rather than a long drawn out sigh over past glories and lost territories.  It is a new kind of empire a-borning.  </p>
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<li>Basil is supp the desc of Armenian kings, who are the desc of Persian princes sent to rule Armenia, which means Basil is somehow Persian King of Kings royalty, many times removed &#8211; however by Basil&#8217;s day they were POOR FARMERS in Macedonia</li>
<li>Basil&#8217;s descendants were married into the Carolingians (Otto 3rd), ancestor of the French Bourbon Dynasty, which happens to include the current King Of Spain (Juan Carlos I) &#8211; with a little history, and some genealogy, you can go anywhere, from the Persians Shahs to modern parliamentary European democracies &#8211; GIBBON, being English,and therefor culturally genealogy-mad, loves this sort of thing</li>
<li>Basil starts out as a Bulgarian slave (Bulgs attack the farm and take the family)</li>
<li>He is ransomed, enters the emperors service, defeats a famous wrestler, tames an untameable horse, comes to the attention of Emp Michael</li>
<li>The curr favorite &#8211; Bardas &#8211; for the succession is killed in a plot by the empress Theodora, Basil takes his place, kills Michael a year later, gains the empire</li>
<li>He is virtuous, moderate, good civil administration, reformulates the laws (the Basilics), died from a wound in a hunt</li>
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<div style="font-size:larger;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_VI_the_Wise">Leo VI</a> &#8211; the Philosopher (886-911)</strong><br />
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<li>Gibbon goes on and on about why he was called philosopher &#8211; Gibbon assumes its basically because he can read, and reads books &#8211; a typically sarcastic comment on Byz civilization by the Enlightenment</li>
<li>He tries and fails 3 times to get a son (like Henry VIII) but runs foul of the Orthodox rules &#8211; you can only marry 2 times, rarely 3, never 4 &#8211; so the son of his 4th wife (the 1st 3 died) is Constantine VII &#8211; who always rules under a cloud of hazy illegitimacy &#8211; birthwise that is &#8211; COnst VII mother = the beautiful ZOE &#8211; the patriarch that refuses to condone it is exiled </li>
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<div style="font-size:larger;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII">Constantine VII</a> Porphyrogenitus(911-919)</strong><br />
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrogenitos">Porphurogenitus</a> = born in the purple &#8211; it was 1st attested in/for COnst VII &#8211; it meant very-special legitimacy &#8211; you had to fulfill 4 req&#8217;s to be purple-born 1)born in a special pavilion lined with purple marble in the Great Palace of Constantinople, 2) The father must be a reigning BASILEUS, 3) the mother must be married to the BASILEUS, 4) the mother must be formally declared an AUGUSTA &#8211; you didn&#8217;t have to be purple-born to rule, or really do anything in the empire, it was just the CADILLAC of births for a ROMAN in the 800&#8242;s ON &#8211; our friend ANNA COMNENUS (of Alexiad fame) in the late 1000&#8242;s/early 1100&#8242;s was a porphyrogenitus &#8211; as she proudly proclaims in her history of her father Alexis in the Alexiad </li>
<li>Empress ZOE manages Const VII minority</li>
<li>Naval leader Romanus Lecapenus sails a fleet in and TAKES OVER for ZOE as the REGENT, But essentially becoming emperor</li>
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<div style="font-size:larger;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_I_Lekapenos">Romanus Lecapenus</a>(919-945)</strong><br />
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<li>3 sons of Romanus &#8211; Christopher, Stephen, Constantine all made Augustus, so now Const VII=5th most important emperor &#8211; but HE WAS STILL PURPLE-BORN</li>
<li>Gibbon has not much to say, except that Const VII made his living by painting</li>
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<div style="font-size:larger;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII">Constantine VII</a> Porphyrogenitus(945-959)</strong><br />
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<li>Helena, Const&#8217;s wife=power of throne</li>
<li>Helena supp poisoned him to get her son on the throne</li>
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<div style="font-size:larger;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_II">Romanus II</a> (959-963)</strong><br />
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<li>Theophano=Const VII wife &#8211; a person of &#8220;base origin, masculine spirit&#8221; &#8211; Gibbon hates her</li>
<li>Romanus leaves his bros &#8211; Nicephorus and Leo to fight the Arabs, he does the pro circuit of Byzantine Tennis &#8211; per Gibbon &#8211; the sphaeristerium</li>
<li>dies after 4 years &#8211; poisoned by Theophano</li>
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<div style="font-size:larger;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas">Nicephoras II</a> Phocas (963-969)</strong><br />
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<li>A hero and a saint, supp greedy</li>
<li>Marries Theophano</li>
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<li>Strength, beauty, soul of a hero</li>
<li>one of the numerouus lovers of Theophano</li>
<li>Theophano allows John to murder Nicephoras</li>
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<p>And again, eunuchs appear in the most unlikely places &#8211; here John Zimisces, Roman Emperor, just back flush with victory from the Eastern frontiers makes a derogatory observation about eunuchs and immediately is killed for it.  </p>
<p>Those Eunuchs!  You can never trust them.</p>
<p>Here, directly from he mouth of Gibbon (and what&#8217;s even odder is that even though this is a quote from a person speaking &#8211; ie John Zimisces &#8211; we are in the footnote-less chapter, so we are left to our own resources to try and find this odd observation by a Roman Emperor with such deadly results:</p>
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The greatest part of his (John Zimisces&#8217;s) reign was employed in the camp and the field: his personal valour and activity were signalized on the Danube and the Tigris, the ancient boundaries of the Roman world; and by his double triumph over the Russians and the Saracens, he deserved the titles of saviour of the empire, and conqueror of the East. </p>
<p>In his last return from Syria, he observed that the most fruitful lands of his new provinces were <strong>possessed by the eunuchs</strong>. &#8220;And is it for them,&#8221; he exclaimed, <strong>with honest indignation</strong>, &#8220;that we have fought and conquered? <strong>Is it for them that we shed our blood, and exhaust the treasures of our people?</strong>&#8221; The complaint was reechoed to the palace, and the death of Zimisces is <strong>strongly marked</strong> with the suspicion of poison.
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<p>(DEF III, Vol.5, Ch.48, pp. 60)</p>
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