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 418 INDEX. arbitrates between Boniface and Bald- win, 400, 401 ; his death, 402. Demetriza, battle of, 92. Despot, the title of, 102 note. Doryleon, defeat of the Turks at, 40 ; re- fortified, 46. Durazzo captured by the Normans, 137 ; besieged by Bohemund, 138. Eastern Church, the Romish differences with, 118, 134; its subserviency to the Court, 210; relics in, 193, 372, 373; embittered against theWestem Church by the Conquest, 396. Eastern Empire, its extent at the end of the twelfth century, 1 ; Roman, if often called Byzantine, 3 ; its prosper- ity under the Basilian dynasty, 3 ; weakened by centralization, 5 ; posi- tion of its ruler, 6 ; power of the mer- chant nobles, 10; began to decline after the Basilian period, 12, 217; weakened by attacks of the Seljukian Turks, 13 ; by attacks from the north, 52 ; by dynastic troubles, 65 ; by the crusades, 117; by the action of Eng- land in seizing Cyprus, 131 ; by attacks from the West, 137; summary of the causes by which it had been weakened, 175 ; disorders under the government of the Crusaders, 402. Egypt, choice of, as the destination of the fourth crusade, 241 ; causes of its abandonment, 244, 245 ; concludes a treaty with Venice, 269. Emperor, Byzantine, position of the, 6 ; the popular conception compared with the theory of divine right, 7; decay of the popular respect for the, 101 ; ef- feminacy of the later emperors, 211. Englishmen in the Waring guard, 158; their church in Constantinople, 169. Erzeroum, the name, 3. Eudocia, intimacy of, with Andronicos Comnenos, 72. Eunuchs, 208, 209. Euphrosyne, mother of Isaac Angeloe, tied to a battering-ram, 83. Eyoub mosque, 311. Flemish fleet separates from the crusad- ing force, 266. Foreigners, conditions under which they lived in the empire, 144. Francopolous, piracy of, 114. Frederic Barbarossa, crusade of, 48, 126; his victories, 49; his destructive march through the empire, 54 ; comes into conflict with Isaac's troops, 128; his death, 129. Fulk preaches the fourth crusade, 234. Galata, derivation c.f the name, 183 note; occupied by the Crusaders, 301 ; con- fused with Pera, 326 note. Genoese, treaties of Manuel I. with the, 169. George, King of Georgia, wars against the Turks, 46. Georgia, conquest of, by Alparslan, 27. Gibbon, error of, as to the meeting-place of the first Nicene Council, 37 note. Godfrey de Bouillon, crusade of, 36. Greek Christians, character of their re- gard for relics, 372. Greek language, 3, 145, 397 note. Greeks, municipal spirit of the, 4 ; its in- fluence on the duration of the empire, 5 ; their mercantile tendencies, 9 ; their theory of government, 9. Gregory VII., Pope, his appeals on behalf of the Eastern emperor, 35. Gyrolemna, the camping- ground of the Crusaders, 310, 311. Haoia Sophia, 188, 360, 361 ; plundered by the Crusaders, 361. Hagiochristophorides, a creature of An- dronicos I., 84, 86 ; killed by Isaac An- gelos, 87. Henry VI. of Germany, crusade of, 133. Henry of Sicily claims imperial territorv, 143. Hippodrome, the, 191. Hopf, Charles, historical collection of, 271. Huns, the, 53; attack the empire, 54. IcONiUM, origin of the sultans of, 31 ; re- covered by Manuel I., 47 ; captured by Frederic Barbarossa, 49, 128. Innocent III., Pope, endeavors to im- pose Roman authoritv on the Eastern Church, 135; character of, 228, 229; his zeal for the deliverance of the Holy Land, 231 ; appeals to Alexis III., 232*; agrees conditionally to the contract be- tween the Crusaders and the Venetians, 241; declines to aid Alexis IV., 281, 284 ; excommunicates the Venetians, 291 ; grants a conditional absolution