Search results
2 days ago · He became an influential military theorist, whose analyses emerged from his extensive personal battlefield experience and covered issues of strategy, tactics, mobility and logistics. Frederick was a supporter of enlightened absolutism, stating that the ruler should be the first servant of the state.
3 days ago · Theoderic (2), known as Strabo or the son of Triarius, led one of two Gothic groups (see goths) which united to create the Ostrogoths. By ce 471 Strabo's Goths had close relations with Constantinople, but the murder of their patron Aspar prompted a revolt during which Strabo established his pre-eminence.
4 days ago · The English Nation: the Great Myth. Edwin Jones has produced a powerful, complex, eloquent and truly remarkable book. It is a heady blend of history and politics, past and present - committed scholarship in the best sense. It rests on the conviction that historical understanding matters.
4 days ago · When he died in the year 604, the people made known what they thought of their “servant”: this Pope was not Gregory, but “Gregory the Great,” proclaimed a saint by popular acclaim.
2 days ago · Theodosius I. Theodosius I ( Greek: Θεοδόσιος Theodosios; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was a Roman emperor from 379 to 395. He won two civil wars, and was instrumental in establishing the Nicene Creed as the orthodox doctrine for Nicene Christianity. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule the ...
3 days ago · Leo’s pontificate was marked by a number of firsts: He was the first Pope named Leo, and the first Pope to be remembered as “the Great” (later, Gregory I and Nicholas I would also be accorded the honour). Leo is also the first Pope whose sermons have come down to us.
3 days ago · Late 10th- and early 11th- century landholders in Bampton or its hamlets included Theoderic the goldsmith, Aelfwine the king's scriptor and minister, the thegn Bundi the forester, and Aretius the king's minister, and in the later Middle Ages several Bampton inhabitants, some of them holders of modest estates and others bailiffs for non-resident ...
