CONTENTS

SEC.

CHAPTER I

NICEPHORUS I., STAURACIUS, AND MICHAEL I. (A.D. 802-813)

1. THE FALL OF IRENE.

2. NICEPHORUS I. (A.D. 802-811)

3. STAURACIUS (A.D. 811)

4. REIGN AND POLICY OF MICHAEL I. (A.D. 811-813)

5. THE ECCLESIASTICAL POLICIES OF NICEPHORUS I. AND MICHAEL I.

CHAPTER II

LEO V., THE ARMENIAN, AND THE REVIVAL OF ICONOCLASM

(A.D. 813-820)

1. REIGN AND ADMINISTRATION OF LEO V.

2. CONSPIRACY OF MICHAEL AND MURDER OF LEO

3. THE REVIVAL OF ICONOCLASM

CHAPTER III

MICHAEL II., THE AMORIAN (A.D. 820-829)

1. THE ACCESSION OF MICHAEL (A.D. 820). THE CORONATION AND

MARRIAGE OF THEOPHILUS (A.D. 821)

2. THE CIVIL WAR (A.D. 821-823)

3. THE ECCLESIASTICAL POLICY OF MICHAEL II.

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4. DEATH OF THEOPHILUS (A.D. 842) AND RESTORATION OF ICONS

2. BARDAS AND BASIL THE MACEDONIAN (A.D. 856-866)

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3. THE ELEVATION OF BASIL (A.D. 866) AND THE MURDER OF

3. THE FRONTIER DEFENCES OF THE EMPIRE AND THE CALIPHATE

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4. THE WARFARE IN

(A.D. 802-833)

5. THE EMBASSY OF JOHN THE GRAMMARIAN AND THE FLIGHT OF

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1. THE BULGARIAN KINGDOM

2. KRUM AND NICEPHORUS I.

3. KRUM AND MICHAEL I.

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4. THE BULGARIAN SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE (A.D. 813)

CHAPTER XIII

THE EMPIRE OF THE KHAZARS AND THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH

ART, LEARNING, AND EDUCATION IN THE AMORIAN PERIOD

III. THE CHRONICLE OF SIMEON, MAGISTER AND LOGOTHETE

IV. GENESIOS AND THE CONTINUATION OF THEOPHANES

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V. CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR BETWEEN MICHAEL II.

THOMAS THE SLAV

AND

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VI. THE FAMILY OF THEOPHILUS

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VII. THE FALL OF THEODORA (chronology)

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VIII. THE WARFARE WITH THE SARACENS IN A.D. 830-832 .

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IX. THE REVOLT OF EUPHEMIOS

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X. PRESIAM, MALAMIR

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XI. ON SOME OF THE SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF CONSTANTINE

AND METHODIUS

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XII. THE MAGYARS

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2. Monographs and Works bearing on special portions of the subject

3. Works relating primarily to Western Europe

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4. Works relating primarily to Eastern Europe or the Saracens

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5. Works relating primarily to Northern Europe (Slavs, Russians,

Hungarians, etc.)

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5a. Works relating to Constantine (Cyril) and Methodius

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