num_pages: 218
description: Liudprand of Cremona, advisor to the Emperor Otto the Great, was also one of the supreme story-tellers of the Middle Ages.A king-maker behind the scenes, Liudprand both engineered Otto's Coronation as Emperor of the West and, as he describes in his Chronicle of Otto's Reign, convened a synod to depose the debauched Pope John XII. Sent on an ill-fated Embassy to Constantinople to arrange a dynastic marriage, he produced a vivid account of the grotesque Byzantine Emperor, court and city, and negotiations doomed by a clash of cultures.Even more wide-ranging is the Antapodosis (or Tit-for Tat), a lively insider's history of Germany and the whole of Southern Europe between the years 887 and 949. Full of comic incident, court gossip and sharp character sketches, it forms an endlessly entertaining summary of an era.
language: English
title: The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Works
titlecomplete: The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Works (Everyman Paperback)
genres: History
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Everyman