John VIII
John VIII d. 882, pope (872-82), a Roman; successor of Adrian II. John strenuously opposed the activities of St. Ignatius of Constantinople in Bulgaria. When Ignatius died, John recognized Photius as patriarch and called the council (879-80) that momentarily reconciled the differences between East and West. John was deeply involved in imperial politics. He crowned Charles II (Charles the Bald) emperor and excommunicated the future Pope Formosus for opposition to his policy. When Charles II lost his power, John favored Charles the Fat, who became emperor as Charles III. The pope had to bribe the Saracens to keep them from entering Rome. He did much to root out corruption in the church in Rome, and, except for Nicholas I, he was the strongest pope of the 9th cent. He was assassinated by his own relatives. Marinus I succeeded him.
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Birth of Lord George Gordon December 26th, 1751.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Huntly and subsequently Dukes of Gordon, had a long and colourful history...thought all of them were mad. Lord George Gordon, the youngest child of the 3rd...against Roman Catholics. Lord George's own forebears had been Catholics...
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Byron, Nietzsche, and the mystery of forgetting. (Lord George Gordon Byron, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...We find thus in this tragedy the quintessence of the most astonishing talent born to be its own tormentor. The character of Lord Byron's life and poetry hardly permits a just and equitable appreciation. life has often enough confessed what it is that...
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Ancestral voices prophesying what? The moving text in Byron's 'Marino Faliero' and 'Sardanapalus'.(dramatist Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...journals, all dramatic scripts designed for production, in London theaters in particular, were obliged to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's office no later than two weeks before performance in order to be inspected for inflammatory radical sentiments...
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'Don Juan,' "a problem, like all things." (Lord George Gordon Byron)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; From its first printing in 1819 till now--nearly two centuries later--readers have disputed the big ideas and real values of Don Juan. Its problematical genius appears to resist all ideological interpretations and themes. Scanning its ottava rimas, we sense something difficult to recognize and
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The Byronic in Jane Austen's persuasion and "Pride and Prejudice".(Lord George Gordon Byron)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Although Austen and Byron are often considered to be irreconcilable opposites, in this article I argue that Austen engaged closely with Byron's poetry and drew inspiration from some of his most popular poems. The first part of the article focuses on Romantic, and specifically Byronic, undercurrents
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"I am more fit to die than people think": Byron on immortality.(Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; "What is PoetryThe Feeling of a Former world and a Future." Byron, Ravenna Journal Elizabeth Longford affirms a commonly accepted view that Byron "mocked the idea of Christian immortality" by citing one of his best-known letters on the subject: "And our carcases, which are to rise again, are they
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord, and Annabella Milbanke.(Review) (book review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2001; ; 419 words
; ...keen observations of human nature and slyly humourous turns of phrase that it makes previous assaults on the Gothic detail of Lord Byron's weathered life look like battering rams.... [Hay's] heroine is Milbanke, the 22-year-old heiress who became...
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord.(Byron: Life and Legend)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 6/22/2003; ; 424 words
; Byron: Life and Legend. Fiona MacCarthy. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002. 674 pp. $35.00. "Fiona MacCarthy, Byron's latest biographer, distinguishes herself from the more than 200 who preceded her by arguing that he was essentially gay, rather than merely sexually omnivorous, which has
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Byron and the Scottish Spenserians.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Poems in Series "I SING THE SOFA," BEGINS THE TASK. COWPER WAS ASSIGNED THIS TOPIC by a lady fond of blank verse: "He obeyed; and having much leisure, connected another subject with it; and pursuing the train of thought, to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth at length,
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Byron and Expatriate Nostalgia.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; "And Loch-na-gar with Ida looked o'er Troy" --The Island NOSTALGIA IS A CONCEPT ENDURINGLY FASHIONABLE IN BYRON STUDIES--suggestively discussed in J. Drummond Bone's "Byron, Scott, and Scottish Nostalgia," and recently explored to fine effect in Stephen Cheeke's Byron and Place. (1) The
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Lord George Gordon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lord George Gordon 1751-93, English agitator, whose activities resulted in the tragic Gordon riots of 1780 in London. In 1779, Gordon assumed leadership of the Protestant Association, an organization...
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Gordon, Lord George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Gordon, Lord George (1751–93). Soon after his election to Parliament in 1774 Lord George, third son of the 3rd duke of Gordon, began to exhibit signs of mental derangement and religious...
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824), English poet, author of several plays in verse which were staged with little success. Only one was...
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Charles George Gordon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Charles George Gordon The English soldier, adventurer, and popular hero Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) was known as "Chinese...Woolwich on Jan. 28, 1833, Charles George Gordon was the son of a lieutenant general...
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Gordon riots
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Gordon riots Anti-Catholic riots in London in 1780. They were led by Lord George Gordon (1751–93), who objected...people killed before order was restored. Gordon was acquitted of high treason, but was...
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