. 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:. her. Timur had not perceived the fact that,the tribute of Christian children being the keystone on which the whole fabricof the Ottoman power rested, its resources were really much greater in Europethan in Asia. The Greek Empire enjoyed an uninterrupted peace during the reign ofMuhammed I, which lasted until the year 1421; and Manuel devoted hisattention during this period to restoring some order in the public adminis-trati
. 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:. her. Timur had not perceived the fact that,the tribute of Christian children being the keystone on which the whole fabricof the Ottoman power rested, its resources were really much greater in Europethan in Asia. The Greek Empire enjoyed an uninterrupted peace during the reign ofMuhammed I, which lasted until the year 1421; and Manuel devoted hisattention during this period to restoring some order in the public adminis-tration, and to re-establishing the sway of the central authority in thedistant provinces of the empire. After completing his reforms in the civil,financial, military, and ecclesiastical departments of Constantinople, hefound it necessary to visit the provinces in person, in order to reduce thelocal power of the Greek archons within reasonable bounds. He quittedConstantinople in the month of July, 1413, and commenced his operationsby reducing the island of Thasos, the citadel of which resisted his littlearmy for two months. The emperor then visited Thessalonica, where it. ^^-:^ A Fourteenth Century Knight MANUEL II TO THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE 335 [1413-1421 ] appears that he remained more than a year. His nephew Joannes, who wasgovernor of the city, assumed the monastic habit; but whether he wascompelled by the emperor to adopt this step, in order to allow tlie newreforms to be carried into execution, is uncertain. The despot Andronicus,the emperors second son, was appointed governor of Thessalonica. Afterhis fathers death he sold the city to the Venetians for the sum of fiftythousand sequins. In March, 1415, Manuel visited the Peloponnesus. The Roman Empireof the East had shrunk to such pitiful dimensions that the Byzantine prov-ince, which comprised only about three-quarters of that peninsula, was nowits most extensive province. The first care of the emperor was to strengthe
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