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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 4027642, member: 87200&quot;]Entry of Mehmet into Constantinople:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://myscienceschool.org/uploads/mehmed-ii-enters-constantinople.serendipityThumb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Also,</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an interesting piece on the acrimony between the eastern church and the roman, which became heavily politicized. The Bishop Liutprand visited Constantinople in the latter 10th century on the behest of Otto the Holy Roman emperor:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="4">&quot;On the seventh day before the Ides (June 7), moreover, on the sacred day - of Pentecost itself, in the palace which is called the crown hall, I was led before Nicephorus-a monstrosity of a man, a pygmy, fat-headed and like a mole as to the smallness of his eyes; disgusting with his short, broad, thick, and half hoary beard; disgraced by a neck an inch long; very bristly through the length and thickness of his hair; in color an Ethiopian; one whom it would not be pleasant to meet in the middle of the night; with extensive belly, lean of loin, very long of hip considering his short stature, small of shank, proportionate as to his heels and feet; clad in a garment costly but too old, and foul-smelling and faded through age; shod with Sicyonian shoes; bold of tongue, a fox by nature, in perjury, and lying a Ulysses. Always my lords and august emperors you seemed to me shapely, how much more shapely after this! Always magnificent, how much more magnificent after this! Always powerful, how much more powerful after this! Always gentle, how much more gentle henceforth! Always full of virtues, how much fuller henceforth.&quot;</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">Complete online text here:</font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/liudprand1.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/liudprand1.asp" rel="nofollow">https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/liudprand1.asp</a></font></p><p><i><font size="4"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"></font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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