The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Works (Everyman Paperback)
Liudprand of Cremona, advisor to the Emperor Otto the Great, was also one of the supreme story-tellers of the Middle Ages.A king-maker behind the scenes, Liudprand both engineered Otto's Coronation as Emperor of the West and, as he describes in his Chronicle of Otto's Reign, convened a synod to...
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Liudprand of Cremona, advisor to the Emperor Otto the Great, was also one of the supreme story-tellers of the Middle Ages.A king-maker behind the scenes, Liudprand both engineered Otto's Coronation as Emperor of the West and, as he describes in his Chronicle of Otto's Reign, convened a synod to depose the debauched Pope John XII. Sent on an ill-fated Embassy to Constantino
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780460872355 (0460872354)
Publisher: Everyman
Pages no: 218
Edition language: English