A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Emperor Romanus IV. and Empress Eudocia. Byzantine ivory earving of the cliviiilli century. Paris. National Library. (.n. arch.) J/iftory of All .\ationi, Vol. /. page 107. BYZANTIUM UNTIL TUE TWELFTH CENTURY. 107. Fig. 30. — EmptTor Basil II. Dedicatory jiicture iu the emperors Psalter. Miuiatureof about 1000 Venice. Library of St. Marks. (From Labarte.) The early successors of Isaac — Constantine X. Ducas (1050-67),Romanus IV. Diogenes (1067-71), Michael VII. Ducas (1071-78)(Fig. 38), and the usu
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Emperor Romanus IV. and Empress Eudocia. Byzantine ivory earving of the cliviiilli century. Paris. National Library. (.n. arch.) J/iftory of All .\ationi, Vol. /. page 107. BYZANTIUM UNTIL TUE TWELFTH CENTURY. 107. Fig. 30. — EmptTor Basil II. Dedicatory jiicture iu the emperors Psalter. Miuiatureof about 1000 Venice. Library of St. Marks. (From Labarte.) The early successors of Isaac — Constantine X. Ducas (1050-67),Romanus IV. Diogenes (1067-71), Michael VII. Ducas (1071-78)(Fig. 38), and the usurper Nicephorus Botoniates (1078-81) () — were men of no special ability. The last remnants ofLower Italy were lost. The most memoraljle event of tliis jjeriodis the defeat and capture of Romanus IV. (Plate IV., Fig. 37) bythe Seljuk Turks under Alp Arslan, with the destructiou of his 108 JSLAM, BYZANTIUM, AND THE FIRST CRUSADE. army, in the battle of Malazkerd in 1071. The provinces of Arme-nia and inner Asia Minor, thus left bare of defence, were speedilyoverrun by the victors. It was these districts, and not the degen-erate Greeks, that had long furnished the strength of the Romanarmies ; and the mihtary power of the empire never recovered fromthe blow.
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