Embassy to Constantinople (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

Liudprand Of Cremona

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9780460872355: Embassy to Constantinople (Everyman's Library)

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ISBN 10: 0460872354 ISBN 13: 9780460872355

Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics, 1993

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Behind the scenes, Liudprand's machinations made Otto Emperor of the West and engineered the deposition of debauched Pope John XII. On his embassy to a grotesque Byzantine Emperor, the clash of cultures doomed his negotiations, a process recollected here. The Antipodosis (887-994) concludes this edition with the comic incidents and rapier gossip of an insider in the Dark Ages of Germany and Southern Europe.

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