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St Philip and Queen Kandakia's eunuch

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Description: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
If the Third Crusade (1189–92) had done little to further Latin ambition apart from the capture of Cyprus, it had served to convince several leaders that the occupation of Constantinople was an essential preliminary to war against the infidel. So wrote Frederick Barbarossa to the Pope when asking for his blessing on such an enterprise. The marriage of Barbarossa’s son Henry to Constance, the heiress of Sicily, united two kingdoms hostile to the Greeks, and on becoming Holy Roman Emperor in 1190 …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.283-343
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00042.012

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