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  • 22 - Byzantium in equilibrium, 886–944

  • from PART III - NON-CAROLINGIAN EUROPE
  • Edited by Timothy Reuter, University of Southampton
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    13 March 2000, pp 553-566

  • Summary

    In the late ninth century the Byzantine emperor's dominions were straggling and vulnerable. A later task-force under the command of a trusted civil servant and relative by marriage of Leo VI, Himerios, was directed against Crete, from which the Byzantines had vainly tried to dislodge the Arabs in the ninth century. The following six years are commonly regarded as a break in the generally orderly political history of tenth-century Byzantium. Melitene was finally annexed in 934, and Theodosiopolis was eventually captured in 949. Muslim forts along the upper Euphrates and its tributaries were turned into Byzantine strongpoints. The most spectacular of Kourkouas' tours de force induced the citizens of Edessa to surrender their famed mandylion, the cloth with the miraculous imprint of Christ's features. In return, Romanos issued a chrysobull, pledging that Byzantium would never again molest the region of Edessa.