. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ropenus, who hadsuccessfully resisted the Seljuk tribes, was proclaimed emperor by his rebel-lious troops, but allowed himself to be taken prisoner, and was deprived ofsight. His successor, Joannes Tarchaniotes vainly attempted to reform theabuses, which rendered the army more oppressive to the emperors subjectsthan dangerous to his enemies. The anarchy that prevailed in the civil,military, and ecclesiastical administration
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ropenus, who hadsuccessfully resisted the Seljuk tribes, was proclaimed emperor by his rebel-lious troops, but allowed himself to be taken prisoner, and was deprived ofsight. His successor, Joannes Tarchaniotes vainly attempted to reform theabuses, which rendered the army more oppressive to the emperors subjectsthan dangerous to his enemies. The anarchy that prevailed in the civil,military, and ecclesiastical administration, rendered him powerless, and hewas compelled to abandon the undertaking. In the year 1301, Michael, the eldest son of Andronicus, who hadreceived the imperial title from his father in 1295, took the command ofthe army in Asia; and about the same time a body of veteran warriors en-tered the imperial service, who, under an able general, would have securedvictory to the Greeks. Andronicus allowed a colony of Alans to settle inhis dominion, and about eight thousand, who had served in the Tatar warsbeyond the Danube, were enrolled in the Byzantine service. After a short. A Twelfth Century Catapult cations. Veccus was deposed for Joseph, who yielded to Gregorius, against whom the Arsenitesconspired ; he fell, and Athanasius lasted four years, leaving wholesale excommunication in ajar, which was not found for four years, and caused immense confusion and terror until Athana-sius said he had revoked it some years before as secretly as he had invoked it. He was thenrestored for a time, till he was forced out for Nephon, who set a better table than the followed, and then Gerasimus, who was chosen because he was old and deaf, but he died ina year. His successor was Isaiah, whose failure to be compliant brought on many of the troublesof the later civil wars.] THE RESTORATION OF THE GREEK EMPIRE 319 [1301 ] term of service, they mutinied, deserted the camp and marched to
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