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The bad relations between Alexander and Leo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Shaun F. Tougher*
Affiliation:
The Queen’s University of Belfast

Abstract

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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1996

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References

1. Karlin-Hayter, P., Vita Euthymii Patriarchae CP. Text, Translation, Introduction and Commentary (Brussels 1970) 5. 20-21, 67. 2425 Google Scholar.

2. Karlin-Hayter, , Vita Euthymii 55. 2124 Google Scholar.

3. For the chronicle account see Georgius Monachus Continuâtes, ed. Bekker, I. CSHB (Bonn 1838) 861 Google Scholar; for the account of the Life of Euthymios, see Karlin-Hayter, , Vita Euthymii 67. 130 Google Scholar. Note that the Life of Euthymios names Nikolaos as the prime suspect: Karlin-Hayter, , Vita Euthymii 73. 24-75. 7 Google Scholar.

4. GMC 872.

5. See Flusin, B., ‘Un fragment inédit de la vie d’Euthyme le patriarche?’, TM 9 (1985) 119-131, esp. 129. 97-100; 10 (1987) 233-260, esp. 237239 Google Scholar.

6. See Karlin-Hayter, P., ‘The Emperor Alexander’s Bad Name’, Speculum 44 (1969) 585596 Google Scholar, repr. Studies in Byzantine Political History (London 1981) XV; Jenkins, R.J.H., ‘The Emperor Alexander and the Saracen Prisoners’, SBN 7 (1953) 389393 Google Scholar, repr. Studies on Byzantine History of the 9th and 10th Centuries (London 1970) XV.

7. Karlin-Hayter, , Vita Euthymii 5. 2021 Google Scholar.

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11. See Vogt, A., Basile 1er empereur de Byzance (867-886) et la civilisation byzantine à la fin du IXe siècle (Paris 1908) 61, 156 Google Scholar; ‘La jeunesse de Léon VI le sage’, Revue Historique 174 (1934) 389-428, esp. 418, 421.

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13. For further consideration of the Alexander-factor of Leo’s reign see my The Reign of Leo VI (886-912). Personal Relationships and Political Ideologies (PhD Thesis St. Andrews 1994) esp. Chapter 8.