Middle Ages
In the Middle-Ages, Greek Empire can refer to:
- Byzantine Empire
The term can also refer to any individual Byzantine successor state that was formed after the first fall of Constantinople in 1204:
- Empire of Trebizond
- Despotate of Epirus
- Empire of Nicaea
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“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And don’t know justly what we would be at—
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“His words and attitudes always suppose a better state of things than other men are acquainted with, and he will be the last man to be disappointed as the ages revolve.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)