United States or Saudi Arabia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was the ambition of his nephews, ambitious, energetic, unprincipled princes, struggling for the supremacy, which was mainly the cause of all these disasters. YEARS OF WAR AND WOE. From 1092 to 1167. Character of Vsevolod. Succession of Sviatopolk. His Discomfiture. Deplorable Condition of Russia. Death of Sviatopolk. His Character. Accession of Monomaque. Curious Festival at Kief.
But twenty years later, 1092, Philip took a dislike to his wife, put her away and banished her to Montreuil-sur-Mer, on the ground of prohibited consanguinity. Philip, having thus packed off Bertha, set out for Tours, where Bertrade happened to be with her husband. There, in the church of St. John, during the benediction of the baptismal fonts, they entered into mutual engagements.
At any rate, early in the spring of the next year, 1092, he marched against Carlisle, expelled Dolphin, son of the Gospatric of William the Conqueror's time, who was holding it under Malcolm of Scotland, built and garrisoned a castle there, and after his return to the south sent a colony of English families to occupy the adjacent country.
Many of his descendants are in the service of Russia, and are the representatives of one of the most ancient monarchies of the world for the Bagrations first rose to power in 587; and if allowance be made for interregnums it will be found that their reign extended over 1092 years, during the twelve centuries that elapsed from their earliest election.
Moses, the older of the two, was born at Granada about 1070 and died after 1138. Abraham, who travelled all over the world, was born at Toledo in 1092 and died in 1167. Neither is particularly famous as a philosopher. Moses's celebrity rests on his poetic productions, secular as well as religious, which are highly praised by Harizi, above even those of Halevi.
In 1092 the crown of Provence passing to the Count of Barcelona brought a more refined taste into the Provencal poetry; the arts and the sciences of the Arabians obtained a foothold in the country; rhyme the method used in Arabian poetry, was adopted by the Troubadours, and from them has been handed down to the nations of modern Europe.
Yaropolk immediately dispatched lieutenants to take possession of the government, and thus all Russia, as a united kingdom, was again brought under the sway of a single sovereign. From 973 to 1092. Flight of Vlademer. His Stolen Bride. The March Upon Kief. Debauchery of Valdemar. Zealous Paganism. Introduction of Christianity. Baptism in the Dnieper. Entire Change in the Character of Valdemar.
The accession of the Count of Barcelona to the crown, in 1092, introduced into Provence the spirit both of liberty and chivalry, and a taste for elegance and the arts, with all the sciences of the Arabians.
The development in the form of images is familiar. The rude and, to modern eyes, grotesque idols of the lower peoples gradually pass into the more finished forms of the civilized nations. In Central America, Mexico, and Peru images are anthropomorphic but lacking in symmetry and grace. +1092+. The Hebrews appear to have had no anthropomorphic images of their national deity.
The "submission" of Malcolm I. to Edmund is not a submission but an alliance; the old English word for "fellow-worker," or "ally," designates Malcolm as fellow-worker with Edward of England. In 1092 an English chronicle represents Malcolm III. as holding Cumberland "by conquest."
Word Of The Day