DEC. 4:  NEIGHBORS

ISLAM, BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST IN THE TENTH CENTURY

 

The Abbasid empire:  ruins of Samarra, near Baghdad

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The Abbasid court:

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The Frontier of Conversion:  Russia

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Russian Orthodoxy:

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Kievan Military Saints:

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Byzantium:  the emperor crowned by Christ...

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...in fact, the emperor is crowned by the patriarch:

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Leo VI baptizes his son:

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Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, "the white death of the Saracens"

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An embassy to Constantinople:

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