(5/2010) Anne Perry's Novel Suitable For HBO Series.(Breaking News and Opinion)(Book review) Basilandspice.com (5/17/2010)
...medicines brings Anna into contact with the Emperor Michael Palaeologus; the Orthodox bishop Constantine, a real eunuch; and an...his possible role in a plot to overthrow Emperor Michael Palaeologus. Time is not on Anna's side, because another crusade...

LONDON VOX POP Do you support the Pope's stand on Islam? READERS' VIEWS. The Evening Standard (London, England) (9/19/2006)
...needed and duly given - an extraordinary gesture by any Pope. Chai Block, NW7. NO The Pope quoted Byzantine Emperor Manuel Palaeologus condemning religious violence. At the same time in history, Benedict's predecessor Boniface IX preached the Crusade and...

A burning question. Sunday Tribune (South Africa) (10/15/2006)
...lecture at Regensburg University, in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who spoke of the Prophet Muhammad's "command to spread by the sword the faith he preached". Several times since...

Jailed Radio Reporter Dies ... The Washington Post (9/15/2006)
...speech Tuesday, Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the prophet Muhammad by 14th-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that everything Muhammad brought was evil and inhuman, "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith...

Pope Assures Muslims, Envoys Of His Commitment to Dialogue The Washington Post (9/26/2006)
...Catholics has expressed regret at the response to his quotation of a passage by the 14th- century Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus saying that Muhammad had brought things "only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he...

POPE: I'M SO SORRY; Apology to Muslims.(News) Sunday Mirror (London, England) (9/17/2006)
...as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." The words were quoted from Byzantine Emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus. The Vatican tried to repair the damage by expressing the Pope's "esteem" for Muslims and insisted his remarks were...

Pope's comments on Islam hit 'civilization clash' fault line.(WORLD) The Christian Science Monitor (9/19/2006)
...deeply sorry" that anyone took offense and that he didn't share the views of the 14th-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel Palaeologus, whom he quoted as saying the only new things Muhammad brought to the world were "evil and inhuman." On the topic of...

Paying tribute to ignorance.(NATION)(PRUDEN ON POLITICS) The Washington Times (Washington, DC) (9/19/2006)
...than mindless obeisance. Benedict reminds his hysterical critics that he merely quoted the Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus, much as he might have cited Hitler, Stalin or even Godzilla: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and...

EXHIBIT ON BYZANTIUM ON TAP AT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.(ARTS-EVENTS) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (3/21/2004)
...director of the Met, said the exhibition covers the ``great artistic flowering'' of Byzantium after emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus' 1261 reconquest of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) from crusaders who had sacked it in 1204, and ``the subsequent...